Brazil’s Health Ministry will extend the application period for the country’s More Doctors program—originally slated to end next Sunday (Nov. 25). The announcement was made Thursday (22) by Minister Gilberto Occhi.
Cuban doctors working in Brazil under the More Doctors program will start to leave the country Thursday (Nov. 22), according to the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), tasked with the partnership between Brazil and Cuba.
Brazilian Health Minister Gilberto Occhi said that the government will not afford the logistics and transport for the over 8 thousand Cuban doctors no longer working in the country.
A new tender for Brazil’s More Doctor program has been called, with 8,517 job posts previously occupied by Cuban doctors in 1,824 municipalities and 34 indigenous areas.
Vice-President-Elect Hamilton Mourão said Monday (Nov. 19) that the future government plans to preserve Petrobras’s “core”, but with possible negotiations in sectors such as distribution and refinement.
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