Padilha: "More Doctors, like Pix, will survive the attacks from the Trump administration"
The Minister of Health states that the program has popular approval and accuses the US president of "persecuting vaccines, researchers, and science."
247 - Health Minister Alexandre Padilha used social media on Wednesday (13) to rebut attacks from the US government on the Mais Médicos program, and to emphatically defend its continuation.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), he compared the importance of the initiative to that of the PIX instant payment system and highlighted that both resist "unjustifiable attacks".
Padilha stated that the program "saves lives" and is widely approved by the Brazilian population. According to him, the Mais Médicos program has doubled the number of active professionals in the last two years of the current government, expanding care to millions of people who previously did not have regular access to medical assistance.
“The More Doctors program, like the PIX program, will survive the unjustifiable attacks from whoever it may be. The program saves lives and is approved by those who matter most: the Brazilian population. We will not bow down to those who persecute vaccines, researchers, science, and now, two of the fundamental people for the More Doctors program during my first term as Minister of Health, Mozart Sales and Alberto Kleiman,” he wrote.
The minister also highlighted his pride in the program's legacy, which brings doctors to previously underserved regions. For him, defending public health and national sovereignty is non-negotiable.
"We will remain firm in our positions: health and sovereignty are not negotiable. We will always be on the side of the Brazilian people," he concluded.
