Dilma: Coronavirus exposes funding deficiencies in the SUS (Brazilian public healthcare system).
"The already deficient SUS (Brazilian public healthcare system) could collapse if urgent measures are not taken. Once again, those most affected by austerity policies will be the poorest and most vulnerable," warns former President Dilma Rousseff.
247 - Former President Dilma Rousseff denounced this Tuesday, the 17th, that the lack of funding for the Unified Health System (SUS) will cause serious harm to the population in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
"The increasing cases of the new coronavirus are exposing the funding deficiencies of the SUS (Brazilian public healthcare system). Constitutional Amendment 95/2016 ('the doomsday amendment'), approved by Temer, froze spending on health for 20 years, and now Bolsonaro is also threatening to decouple revenues for the area," Dilma wrote on Twitter.
On Tuesday, the first death from coronavirus in Brazil was confirmed. It was a 62-year-old man, a resident of São Paulo, who also had diabetes and hypertension. The patient had no history of travel. In addition to him, a 63-year-old woman who had contact with her employer, who came from Italy and tested positive for Covid-19, also died.