The Legislative Assembly of Santa Catarina approved on Tuesday a request to call Health Minister Aldo Baptista Neto to explain the lack of intensive care beds in Santa Catarina. Request from MP Bruno Sousa from Novo, who recalled the death of three children in the state without access to a place in the intensive care unit.

No beds in the intensive care unit. Clerk will be called to the Santa Catarina Legislature to explain – Photo: Paulo Goeth/S.C. Government/Disclosure/ND

In June, a two-month-old baby died at the Joan de Gusmão Children’s Hospital without the right to a newborn bed. On July 9, another six-month-old baby in the municipality of Tres Barras died while awaiting transfer to the neonatal intensive care unit in Jaragua do Sul. And also in July, another two-year-old child with severe pneumonia did not end up in intensive care and also did not survive,” the deputy said.

The purpose of the phone call is for the Secretariat to detail the emergency actions that will be taken to increase the number of new pediatric intensive care beds in the state, as announced, in addition to informing about the action plan to cover a possible increase in demand if case.

The MP also asks the secretary to answer questions arising from a June 21 public hearing called by the Legislative Assembly’s Health Commission, which was sent to the Secretary of State for Health on June 22 but has not yet been received. were the answers.

“The government of Santa Catarina is careless about the lives of Santa Catarina and, even worse, the lives of our children. . This is unacceptable,” the applicant concludes.