The national secretary of Surveillance of the Brazilian Ministry of Health presented his resignation due to differences with the president
In the midst of the health crisis that Brazil is going through, the president, Jair Bolsonaro, dismissed the health minister, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, for alleged discrepancies with the president. This was confirmed by the same official this Thursday, April 16.
Through his Twitter account, after a meeting with Bolsonaro, Mandetta expressed: «I have just heard from President Jair Bolsonaro the notice of my resignation from the Ministry of Health. I want to thank the opportunity that I was given, to be a manager of our SUS, to establish the project to improve the health of Brazilians and to plan to face the coronavirus pandemic, the great challenge facing our health system. ”
In addition, the former minister thanked his team and wished his successor success. «I ask God and Our Lady Aparecida to bless our country very much,» he added.
Bolsonaro and Mandetta had differences in the way they deal with the coronavirus epidemic in Brazil, which has left 1,924 dead and a total of 30,425 confirmed infections until this Thursday.
The former minister was firm in the decision to maintain the isolation measures, while Bolsonaro minimized the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic would have in Brazil.
But the former minister is not the only official who has dissociated himself from this Portfolio of State, the national secretary of Surveillance of the Brazilian Ministry of Health, Wanderson de Oliveira, presented his resignation due to open differences with President Bolsonaro, due to the poor management of the Government Brazilian during the health crisis.
Source: DW / RT
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