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The president of the Federal Supreme Court, Minister Luiz Fux, dismissed the doctor Marco Polo Dias Freitas, secretary of Integrated Health Services of the Court. The decision was made after Freitas asked Fiocruz to reserve 7,000 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 for STF ministers and servers.
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The exoneration, signed by Fux this Sunday (12/27), is valid from this Monday (12/28). The minister told the CNN which has come under fire since the reservation request was made public. He also said that he did not authorize the request and was not even informed of it.
The reservation had already been denied by Fiocruz, which said it had no autonomy “not even to dedicate part of its production” to immunizing its own servers. He also said that all vaccines will be sent to the Ministry of Health.
In the last 23, days after sending the letter to Fiocruz, Fux defended the vaccine reserve, in an interview with TV Justice. “We, for example, made a request in all the delicate and ethical ways, a request, within the possibilities, that when all the priorities are met, that also the higher courts, which must work for Covid, have the means to to work”. And for that you have to vaccinate. It is useless to vaccinate the ministers and not the officials. The spread of the disease would be exactly the same, “he said at the time.
On Monday, however, the minister told the CNN that, in defense of the reserve, he was unaware of the existence of the letter sent to Fiocruz and that he did not request that the ministers and servants of the Court be prioritized.
The Secretariat of Integrated Health Services, headed by Freitas, would be in charge of carrying out the vaccination campaign in the Supreme Court and, according to information from the newspaper The State of S. Paulo, a server would withdraw the doses at the Fiocruz facilities, if the request was accepted.
With a degree in Medicine from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Freitas has a specialization in geriatrics, a master’s degree in clinical medicine, a doctorate in Health Sciences and a postgraduate degree in evidence-based health. He was a clinical physician at the STF since 2009 and assumed the secretariat in August 2014.
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