Rousseff Thanks Latin American Doctors for Response to Brazil’s Call

Rousseff Thanks Latin American Doctors for Response to Brazil’s Call
Caracas, Thursday October 24,2013

BRASILIA – President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday expressed her thanks for the rapid response of doctors from Latin American countries to the call issued by Brazil for medical professionals to serve in the country’s most remote and poorest areas.

“I thank those who came to Brazil without their families and who showed immense love for the Brazilian people. They came to help us. This country will be eternally grateful to them,” she said after signing the law that regulates the hiring of foreign physicians.

The president called the response “the most perfect and most complete demonstration of the integration of Latin America.”

Rousseff, at a ceremony with some 600 doctors in attendance, said that Latin Americans, mainly Cubans and Argentines, are “the center of the More Doctors Program.”

“By April 2014, we intend to have some 13,000 doctors signed up for the program. With that, we’ll be able to guarantee that about 46 million Brazilians are receiving quality medical attention,” she said.

“More doctors ... will mean fewer illnesses. And that is a basic equation,” she said.

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