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The governor of Maranhão, Flávio Dino (PCdoB), filed a lawsuit yesterday with the STF (Supreme Federal Court) for the federal government to reactivate the payment of ICU beds for covid-19 care. Today, President Jair Bolsonaro (without a party) went to Alcântara, in Maranhão, and said that the state has no reason to complain about this matter.
“Last year, the federal government gave R $ 18 billion to the state of Maranhão. Of those R $ 18 billion, R $ 1.3 billion went to Health. ER $ 190 million went exclusively to ICU beds So it does not justify any complaint that there are no ICU beds to care for Maranhão’s brothers, “said Bolsonaro, at a property title ceremony.
In the action presented to the STF, Maranhão reported that ICU beds financed by the Ministry of Health have been drastically reduced. As of December 2020, 12,003 were rated by the federal government. In February, that number was reduced to 3,187, despite the state’s request for hundreds of new beds.
For the Maranhão government, given the scenario, there is a “clear disarticulation and the absence of national coordination, which should be led by the Ministry of Health, which, instead of increasing financial support and the supply of highly complex beds in the states and municipalities, the supply decreased, which has caused a lack of resources to maintain the existing beds and expand the network of services in the face of the indisputable increase in cases and hospitalizations ”.
Yesterday he Twitter He applied for a position with the Ministry of Health on the subject. In a note, the folder said that it “contributed to the cost of beds throughout Brazil.”
“Each ICU bed for the treatment of patients with Covid-19 received R $ 1,600 (double the usual cost), paid in a single and immediate installment. Each bed was defined during the fiscal year. Throughout 2020, Maranhão received 390 ICU Covid -19 beds, “he says.
The note, however, does not speak of ICU beds in 2021 and says, in a generic way, that “on December 30, 2020, according to the GM / MS ordinance No. 3,896, the Ministry of Health allowed the states to continue executing R $ 864 million in unspent resources to face the pandemic in 2021 “.
Other states have already complained of the same problem. And the governor of São Paulo, João Doria, also announced that he filed a lawsuit with the STF to request the authorization of ICU beds for covid-19.
Emergency help
At the same event today, Bolsonaro also spoke about the possibility of paying new emergency aid for the population. He said he is studying the measure, but stressed that it will only be provisional.
“Most of you received emergency aid. It was R $ 13 billion just for Maranhão. We understood that there was a need to help you, because along with the pandemic, the works were closed. At this time, our team, together with the parliamentarians “We are studying the extension for a few more months of emergency aid, which is an emergency. It cannot be eternal, because it represents a great debt and no one here wants a broken country. People want work,” Bolsonaro concluded.
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