Temer and Parente's chaos is already paralyzing hospitals.
The nationwide truckers' strike is beginning to affect hospital services, including urgent and emergency care. According to the National Health Confederation (CNS), some establishments are experiencing shortages of products such as medical gas, anesthetic materials, medications, water treatment supplies, among others; this situation was created by the irresponsible pricing policy implemented by Pedro Parente at Petrobras, but Michel Temer did not dismiss him.
247 - The chaos created in Brazil by the pricing policy implemented by Pedro Parente at Petrobras, aimed at ensuring the piecemeal privatization of Petrobras, is already affecting the health sector. Michel Temer, a product of the 2016 coup, has not dismissed him. Below, news from Agência Brasil:
The nationwide truckers' strike is beginning to affect hospital services, including urgent and emergency care. According to the National Health Confederation (CNS), some establishments are experiencing shortages of products such as medical gas, anesthetic materials, medications, water treatment supplies, among others.
In a statement, the organization asks protesters blocking roads in 22 states to allow passage for vehicles transporting priority medical supplies.
"The confederation is not opposed to any demonstration. However, it warns that if this appeal is not heeded by you, the problems in the supply of essential inputs will increase," it emphasized.
In the statement, the organization argues that it is essential that the truckers' demands do not jeopardize the health of citizens.
According to the president of the Brazilian Federation of Hospitals, Luiz Aramicy Bezerra Pinto, the situation is already critical in Curitiba, Fortaleza, João Pessoa, Recife, and Rio de Janeiro.
"Hospitals in several capital cities are running low on oxygen supplies. I think if we don't have a solution by the end of the day, we will face a critical situation," Aramicy told Agência Brasil.
According to him, the federation has already suggested to hospital directors that, if the supply is not normalized in the next few hours, only the most serious, emergency patients should be admitted to intensive care units (ICUs).
The Brazilian Association of Truck Drivers (Abcam), which represents 700 workers, guarantees that it will instruct the protesters to let vehicles carrying medicines, live cargo, fuel and perishable products pass. Yesterday (24), Abcam rejected the proposal presented by the federal government and maintained its guidance for drivers to continue the strike.
Even after the government to announce an agreement Alongside the movement's leaders, thousands of truck drivers are maintaining blockades in various parts of the country. Earlier, the Federal Highway Police (PRF) reported that... no demobilization recorded on the country's highways.