Opinion: Brazil’s Lamentable Lame Duck Presidency
Brazil’s last quarter 2018 saw the election of Jair Bolsonaro, who began immediately to act as if he were already...
December 27, 2018Topic
Mais Médicos
Brazil’s Health Ministry Says More than 96% of Mais Médicos Jobs Filled
The Ministry of Health in Brazil reported yesterday (November 25th) that 96.6 percent of the doctor positions left open in...
November 26, 2018
Cuba Withdraws its Doctors from Brazil’s Mais Medicos Program
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Cuba’s Public Health Ministry announced Wednesday that it will...
November 15, 2018
Brazil’s Mais Medicos Program to Lose Cuban Doctors
As Brazilian doctors' participation in program grows, Cuban doctors file suits to remain in the country after contract expires and...
October 4, 2017
Brazil’s Senate Approves Mais Médicos Program Extension
The measure allows the more than seven thousand foreign doctors currently in the country to remain in Brazil for three...
August 25, 2016
Brazil’s Mais Médicos Programs Celebrates Two Years
During the past two years, 18.240 physicians have been hired to work in more than 4,000 municipalities and help over...
September 18, 2015
Rousseff Inaugurates Another New Hospital: Daily
President Dilma Rousseff spoke of World Cup and Mais Médicos program as she opened hospital in Porto Alegre.
July 5, 2014
Rousseff Opens Emergency Care Hospital in Rio State
Government goals of increasing staffing and specialised services are being met with new schemes and hospitals.
July 1, 2014
Opinion: The Curmudgeon on Foreign Doctors (Re-revisited)
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A while back the Curmudgeon began a diatribe with “The Cubans...
February 11, 2014