During a live broadcast on the CNN channel, which covered rescues in Canoas, in Rio Grande do Sula volunteer dressed in a first aid vest used his speaking time to take a stand against the Rede Globo and the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The statement was made on the evening of Thursday 9th.
While speaking with reporter Pedro Teixeira, the boy shared that the tragedy could have been avoided if government officials had mobilized preventively.
As he continued, he said he would send a message on behalf of the country’s young people and exclaimed: “Globo rubbish and Lula out”. Surprised, the journalist quickly moved the microphone away from the interviewee.
According to the most recent bulletin from Civil Defense of Rio Grande do Sulreleased on the afternoon of this Friday, the 10th, the number of deaths as a result of the rains and floods in the State rose to 116. Around 1.9 million people from Rio Grande do Sul were affected.
The number of municipalities impacted by the phenomena also increased: in the last bulletin, Civil Defense counted 435 cities affected. Now, there are 437. RS has 497 municipalities.
Lula’s Minister sues PF against doctors from Rio Grande do Sul for “fake news” about floods in RS
The minister of the Social Communication Secretariat of the Lula government, PT member Paulo Pimenta, called the Federal Police to investigate two doctors from Rio Grande do Sul for alleged “dissemination of fake news“. Dematologist Roberta Zaffari Townsend and integrative Victor Sorrentino accused the Anvisa to make it difficult to deliver medicines to victims of the catastrophe in Rio Grande do Sul.
The doctors’ accusations about the bureaucracy of the public body were carried out through their social networks, in which they made an appeal to facilitate the process in the face of the emergency situation.
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Roberta, who has 33.5 thousand followers on Instagram, posted that she and her colleagues were facing obstacles due to the bureaucracy of the National Health Surveillance Agency. According to the dermatologist, Anvisa prevented friends’ private planes, loaded with donated medicines, from taking off.
In an emotional appeal, the doctor requested: “Please, Anvisa, release these medications. We need to save people’s lives.”
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