Ministry of Health invests R$18 million in the construction of nine UBS in Amazonas

Nine municipalities in Amazonas are scheduled to receive new Basic Health Units (UBS) as part of the New PAC Saúde. Last Wednesday (24), the Ministry of Health published an ordinance allocating an investment of more than R$18 million to the construction of these health units in the state. In total, R$1.1 billion will be invested in the construction of 500 Basic Health Units (UBS). The goal is to approve and enable all 1,800 proposals selected by the program across the country by the last week of May.

The cities covered are: Coari; Jutaí; Manicoré; New Olinda do Norte; Santa Isabel do Rio Negro; São Sebastião do Uatumã; Tabatinga and Urucurituba.

Formalization stage

States and municipalities selected to receive works or equipment from the New PAC, Health axis, are in the midst of completing a new mandatory stage: completing the formalization proposal. Additional information and complementary documents must be presented online, on the InvestSUS website, by May 10th. All those selected must participate, regardless of the modality for which they were selected, including proposals covered by parliamentary amendments.

During the registration phase, which took place between October and November 2023, federated entities were able to choose to present some documents later, as long as they signed a declaration with this commitment. In the current stage, the time has come for the presentation, for example, of photos of the land and – for some types of work – for approval by the Bipartite Intermanagers Commission (CIB) of the Unified Health System (SUS). With each formalized proposal, the technical teams check the documents, approve them and forward them for publication in the ordinance.

The department’s expectation is that the commitment of resources from the New PAC Health for all 2,125 works and 937 pieces of equipment, across all ten planned modalities, will be ready by June 30, and that the first transfers will be made in 2024.

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