Perillo prioritizes services and delivery of deeds.

Goiás 247_ The Mobile Government program – this year titled “The Government Close to You” – began this Thursday morning in the Northwest Region of Goiânia, where a structure was set up in the Praça da Feira on Avenida Mangalô, in the Morada do Sol sector. In addition to providing services offered by the state government, mainly through the Vapt-Vupts (a network of public service centers), the Mobile Government now has partners who will integrate the services offered bi-weekly and then weekly in various cities in Goiás.

The State Public Prosecutor's Office (MPE), the Court of Justice of Goiás (TJ-GO), the Regional Electoral Court (TRE), the Regional Labor Court (TRT), Fieg, and the institutions that make up the so-called "S System"—Sebrae, Senai, among others—set up their stands to provide services to the population of the Northwest Region. From the start of the program at 8:00 AM, residents were divided into long lines seeking assistance. Inside the largest tent in the square, 52 booths offered services from Vapt-Vupt and other government departments and sectors. In another booth, residents who had already gone through the process of registering their homes waited to finally receive their deeds.

At the health tent, several services were offered: vaccination against influenza A for groups considered at risk, vaccines against tetanus, diphtheria, yellow fever and hepatitis B; blood pressure measurement, Body Mass Index (BMI) measurement and guidance on obesity. But the most anticipated and celebrated service by many residents of the region was the ophthalmological examination.

After evaluation, people who need glasses will receive them, and those who need surgery will be referred to surgical centers. Gláucia Rodrigues Borges, a resident of Residencial JK, turned to the program seeking an ophthalmological consultation. “I don’t wear glasses yet, but I believe I will have to, because I have difficulty seeing. So, I came to have this exam and see if I can get glasses, because I can’t afford to pay for them,” she said.

Benefits deliveries

In addition to offering services, the state government reported on investments in the region, signed service orders, and delivered benefits. Focusing on the education sector, Governor Marconi Perillo delivered five thousand school kits to students in the region, and one hundred computers to schools that developed the best projects to combat dengue fever, an initiative of the government through the State Health Secretariat in partnership with the State Education Secretariat. Marconi also delivered the first 200 tablets out of a total of 10 that will be delivered by the end of 2014. This delivery is the result of a partnership with the federal government, through funds from the National Fund for the Development of Education (FNDE).

In the housing sector, the governor and the president of Agehab, Marcos Abrão Roriz, delivered 158 property deeds to families in the Northwest region and registered another 800 who still live in houses with prefabricated concrete structures. They also delivered 315 housing units in the Jardim Curitiba I, II, III, and IV sectors to families who lived in areas at risk and in environmental preservation zones. In these sectors, two Integrated Citizenship Centers, two public squares, and a Children's Community Center will be built. The works will be carried out in partnership with the federal government, through the full land regularization program, and also include the installation of a sewage network. Approximately more than R$ 35 million will be spent on these works.

The Youth Superintendency, of the Secretariat of Institutional Articulation, launched another project of the governor to distribute free student passes to students in the public education system. At the booth, the first registrations of students who are also scholarship recipients of the Organization of Volunteers of Goiás (OVG) were carried out. The OVG, in turn, delivered layette kits, wheelchairs, and provided preventive dental care.

Salesman Januário Socorro de Oliveira Filho lost his documents and had to rush to get duplicates of them all. “I intend to get a new ID, CPF [Brazilian tax ID], and driver's license. If I had to pay for all of them, it would be very difficult for me,” he said. Retiree Antônio de Faria was eager to get his Senior Citizen's Passport and considered the government's offering of services to residents of the region to be positive and very important. “While I wait to receive my passport, my wife is having her eye exam. I think it's great that the government helps us in this way, because people from the same family can be served at the same time, and we save money that we might otherwise need for other things. I was very happy when they told me that this program was going to be offered again,” he reported.

According to the Secretary of Institutional Coordination, Daniel Goulart, the next edition of the Itinerant Government program will be in Aparecida de Goiânia in 15 days. In the Northwest Region, the program will remain until Sunday. After that, the event will be held weekly. As Goulart had stated, this year the government's objective is to leave a permanent service in each region after the program ends. The Northwest region will receive a Vapt-Vupt unit, which should be delivered on the last day of the program.