Bolsonaro vetoes bill that guarantees heart prostheses through the SUS (Brazilian public healthcare system).
In a statement, the Ministry of Health affirms that the current head of the Executive branch decided to veto the project after speaking with members of the ministry.
247 - Jair Bolsonaro (PL) vetoed a bill that would have mandated the SUS (Brazilian public healthcare system) to perform cardiac prosthesis implants via catheter. informs the Radar column in Veja magazine.
This procedure "would be an alternative for patients with aortic stenosis, a disease that affects between 1% and 4% of people over 65, who are at risk if they undergo surgery," the column says.
In a statement, the Ministry of Health affirms that Bolsonaro decided to veto the project after speaking with members of the ministry. It was concluded that including this procedure in the SUS (Brazilian Public Health System) would not be in the public interest, given that the Unified Health System already offers the transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) procedure.
According to Radar, approval of the new procedure would require technological upgrades in public hospitals.
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