Luciana Lima           Reporter Agência Brasil

Brasília – President Dilma Rousseff announced yesterday that the Brazilian government will use the experience of home care projects in the United States for its own similar program. One of the objectives of home care delivery programs is to alleviate demand for hospitalizations.

“The government will finance the treatment of the sick at home where the same care available in hospitals will be provided,” said the president. “In many cases an ill person that would be hospitalized can be taken care of at home if there is someone to provide the necessary care. The government program will ensure that that can happen,” said the president.

The Unified Health System (“Sistema Único de Saúde – SUS”) has already published new norms for the operation of home care and set aside $36.5 million for it.

In a speech for the launch of the program, Dilma explained that policy in the area of health was to increase the number of doctors in the country, mainly in areas outside large cities. “We have set up a partnership between the ministries of Health and Education to expand the number of graduates from medical schools, especially in rural areas (“interiorização"),” declared the president.

Allen Bennett – translator/editor The News in English

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