The Minister of Health, Nísia Trindade, faced with the precariousness of federal hospitals in Rio de Janeiro, is meeting, this Tuesday (26), with professionals and managers who had experience in hospitals that began to be managed jointly by the Ministry of Health .
“We will need to have closer monitoring of what was being done in hospitals. It cannot be a job in which there is no close contact with what happens in the six hospital units”, said Nísia, who participated in an event this morning at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), in Rio.
She highlighted that, at this moment, the Ministry of Health is developing “very short-term actions, which involve evaluation and measures related to infrastructure and contracting”.
He added that “the fact of being here in Rio de Janeiro also contributes, because we will have the opportunity to talk to a series of managers who have had experience with these hospitals”.
Hospitals of excellence
Nísia also stated that the ministry’s guidance is that federal hospitals return to being “hospitals of excellence, which they were in the past, but for few because we did not have a Unified Health System. That is our guidance. So, we will work in the best way and with the best management models to reach this goal.”
Last Monday (18), the Ministry of Health began the work of the Management Committee that will manage the six federal hospitals in Rio. According to the ministry, the body will work for at least 30 days with the directors of each hospital to recover and restructure the units after “years of precariousness”.
The Management Committee will be directed by the Secretariat of Specialized Health Care (Saes), with representatives from the Department of Hospital Management (DGH), advisors, coordinations and secretariats from the Ministry of Health. One of the objectives is to improve governance and dialogue between servers, unions and managers.
