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During two decades of military dictatorship, none of the presidents general was eager to hand over the Ministry of Health to anyone but a doctor. Jair Bolsonaro put a military man in charge of the portfolio on the pretext that managing the pandemic would require war logistics. There was a pandemonium.
General Eduardo Pazuello proved to be a fascinating administrator. Just comparing, he makes decisions like a carpenter who, to drive a nail without hurting his finger, holds the hammer with both hands. In the best “one commands and the other obeys” style, Pazuello is Bolsonaro’s hammer.
Summoned by the Supreme Court to set a date for the start of vaccination against Covid, Health reported that immunization will begin within five days after the release of a vaccine by Anvisa. Engagement has it all to become a sanitary version of small talk.
Even if the government obtains the vaccines, there is a great risk of not obtaining the syringes. In a conventional war, it would be like going down to the battlefield with ammunition and without a rifle. The carelessness is due to excessive negligence.
Reporter Vinicius Sassine says General Pazuello’s office shrugged six months ago over a letter from the Ministry of Economy about the importation of syringes from China. The consultation has been sleeping since June 23 in the drawer of Colonel Elcio Franco, number two in Pazuello.
Pushed for the second time, the Health portfolio says it will respond to the Economy team on December 28. The government estimates that it will need 300 million syringes and needles. The domestic industry cannot meet the demand overnight. In the international market, the queue is long.
Institutions are often said to function properly in Brazil. If it were true, the blackout in the Ministry of Health would have already produced an institutional short-circuit. The coronavirus reinforces the feeling that the biggest mistake in humanity’s evolution is incompetence that does no harm.
