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After the collapse in the health system of Manaus, the capital of Amazonas, the lack of hospital oxygen to treat patients hospitalized for the new coronavirus was also registered in the municipality of Faro, in Pará. After the city of 12 thousand inhabitants registered at least six deaths. due to suffocation in 24 hours, a working group made up of members of the State, Federal and Labor Public Ministries formalized a request for measures to the Ministry of Health and the Government of Pará.
In the document, sent on the afternoon of Tuesday 18, prosecutors and prosecutors asked the authorities to report ongoing actions to avoid a shortage of supplies and guarantee patient care. There is particular concern about a ‘domino effect’ in the Lower Amazon region, where, according to the letter, there are signs that the health system is on the verge of collapse. The response time is three days.
The Public Ministries recommend that the Minister of Health, Eduardo Pazuello, the Governor of Pará, Helder Barbalho (MDB), and the Secretary of State Health, Rômulo Rodovalho Gomes, act together in monitoring and material and human support to the municipalities, including financing any transfer to other States.
The document also points out that direct action by the federal government in the fight against the covid-19 pandemic in states and municipalities has never been vetoed by the Federal Supreme Court, contrary to what President Jair Bolsonaro (without a party) said in the wake of the deaths in Manaus. .
In practice, the recommendation is an instrument used by the Public Ministry to alert the authorities about the need for measures to resolve an irregular situation or that may lead to irregularities. In short, it opens the way to prosecution, in the civil and criminal sphere, in case of unjustified non-compliance.
In a note released yesterday afternoon, the Pará Health Secretariat reported that it had issued an alert to municipal departments to monitor stocks in hospitals. In the text, the folder establishes that each city council is responsible for maintaining contracts and buying supplies for local supply and that the government is responsible for supplying state hospitals.
In addition to Amazonas and Pará, the Public Ministry also monitors the situation in Ceará. Until this Monday 18, the agency had formalized three requests for information, addressed to the State and Fortaleza Health Secretariats and to the White Martins company, on the demand for hospital oxygen in the State. Although the Public Ministry rules out, at this time, the risk of shortages, the idea is to anticipate possible explosions in demand.
“We are monitoring how inventories are controlled by the authorities, what the manufacturing is like and if White Martins has the capacity to eventually increase production. All this to understand what steps we can take to do what happened in Manaus.” it does not happen here in the State of Ceará, “he explained. Status the prosecutor Ana Cláudia Uchôa, head of Prosecutor 137 in Fortaleza.
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