On arrival at the Rio de Janeiro of overseas trained doctors for More Doctors program, the Ministry of Health, were the Brazilians who were outside the country and joined the program to beat strong against critics of the initiative. "We do not need to revalidate (revalidation examination diploma). Did five years of pediatric out there and not two as aninhos here," said the critical tone goiano Marcio Moura, who left the public service in Faro, southern Portugal, to return to Brazil with his wife and daughter to work in Pirenopolis, State "Do not need money, came the challenge of working in our country," he said.
20 years ago in Portugal and Spain formed, Robson Carmo is another who decided to return to Brazil. "I have no responsibility to patients and physicians Brazilians. Persons should they evaluate me," he said, stating that the scholarship offered at $ 10,000 is the least important factor. "Outside earned two and half times more than here," he says. "And get an edge in life that money is not everything. Fellow Brazilians do not need to be afraid of us," said Marcio, disgusted with the controversy. He said he decided to return to Brazil for only 40 days.
Another revolt doctors newcomers Portugal is on the complaint of lack of medical entities more structure than health professionals in Brazil. "I know the reality in my city and I know that we put physicians are well equipped," said Teodoro Geslei another goiano leaving Europe to return home. "I understand the concern of doctors here, but over time it goes," he said, stating that there are many untruths about training them abroad. "If you want to leave Portugal and go to England, do not have to prove this, just make sure you speak English," said alongside two friends, two Brazilian doctors who came from Argentina and four doctors Portuguese.
Throughout the weekend, 68 doctors will arrive at Galeão airport from Portugal, Germany, Spain, Uruguay, Argentina and Russia, and some Brazilians formed in these countries. Of the total of 244 doctors who come to Brazil, 47 cities will stay in the state of Rio They will spend three weeks in an accommodation of the army and participate in a training program evaluation of health and Portuguese made by a federal university.
Independent of each professional specialty, they will act as a family doctor. Once approved, they gain working visa three years duration to work only in the location chosen in the selection process.
In Rio de Janeiro, overseas trained doctors arrived with criticism of Brazilian professionals
Overseas trained doctors are received program director of the Management Secretariat of Labor and Health Education, Felipe Proenço, under the Ministry of Health, in Porto Alegre.
The Spanish medical Sonia Nunes comes to Brasilia
In the federal capital, Health Minister, Alexandre Padilha, health professionals received.
In the federal capital, Health Minister, Alexandre Padilha, health professionals received.
Thiago Silva, 32, is Brazilian and Argentine returns after 12 years. Pediatrician, he said that the scholarship amount was weighed the least to work in Brazil. "I want to offer good medicine here," he said, whose father was born in Minas Gerais and mother born in São Paulo.
According Jarbas Barbosa, Secretary of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, St. Paul will get 102 of 1,340 medical professionals who will be allocated to 516 municipalities in the country.
Cristian Cheles Uzuelli, 32, is another Brazilian formed in Argentina, where he lived for eight years. "Whenever we work in a place where there is some hostility in the beginning. Was like me in Europe. Vir work here was a matter of choice. Worked in the region of La Plata, where they consider that poverty issues are even greater than those I face here", he said.
According to medical Argentine Natalia Allocco, 26, the program anticipated a "dream" that had to live in Brazil. Daughter of a Brazilian mother, she claims to know the country, for which already came on several occasions. Working in poor regions do not scare.
In São Paulo, seven doctors trained abroad landed at Guarulhos Airport on Friday. Until Sunday, is expected the arrival of 244 professionals to various cities of the country As of Monday, they begin to undergo a refresher course of three weeks, and then be forwarded to the cities where they work.