Brasilia, 31 March Presna Latina
The "More Doctors" Program will have about 13,235 health experts in April, to assist about 46 million Brazilians, the country's President Dilma Rousseff stated today.We are going to fulfill the objectives proposed almost one year ago, when we conceive the "More Doctors" program, to expand free health care throughout Brazil, Rousseff said in her usual Monday radio program Coffee with the President.
We have now 9,490 physicians distributed in 3,025 municipalities and 31 special indigenous districts, ensuring direct health care to 33 million citizens near their houses, the president stressed.
We will resolve with this the 80 percent of people's health problems, because doctors provide the first medical aid, reducing emergency
services at hospitals.Rousseff stated that recent researches confirm the positive results of this program, which includes national and foreign physicians.
The presence of Cuban physicians in Brazil was achieved after the signing in July of an agreement between the Pan-American health
Organization and authorities from this nation