Responsible for leading some of the main thrusts of the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government to disseminate the Covid kit, doctor Hélio Angotti was dismissed this Wednesday (16) from the command of the Secretariat of Science, Technology, Innovation and Strategic Inputs.
as showed the sheet, the change was a way to remove Angotti from the Ministry of Health’s portfolio that deals with SUS treatment guidelines and protocols. In January, he rejected guidance on Covid that contraindicated the use of ineffective drugs for the disease, such as hydroxychloroquine.
Angotti remains in the ministry, now in charge of the Department of Labor Management and Health Education, a portfolio that was vacant since the departure of doctor Mayra Pinheiro, known as “Captain Chloroquine”.
Mayra joined the PL and is expected to compete for Ceará’s seat in the Chamber of Deputies. Until the beginning of April, the period required to leave the government if she applies, she must occupy the position of undersecretary of Federal Medical Expertise at the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, with an additional remuneration of R$ 8,170.
The government also promoted other changes at the Health summit.
Career servant of the Ministry of Health, Sandra de Castro Barros took over the command of the secretariat that was under the leadership of Angotti.
The Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga, even evaluated the name of doctor Sérgio Okane for this position, who rejected the offer and even asked to leave the government.
The dismissal of Okane from the vacancy of Secretary of Specialized Health Care was also published in the Official Gazette of the Union this Wednesday (16). Despite complaints from state and municipal secretaries, the nurse and public health manager Maíra Batista Botelho took up this position.
The guidelines for the treatment of the new coronavirus denied by Angotti had been prepared by experts and approved by Conitec (National Commission for the Incorporation of Technologies in SUS).
To justify the decision, the secretary also signed a note defending hydroxychloroquine and stating that vaccines do not work.
The secretary also spearheaded other attempts to promote ineffective treatment, such as the idea of including drugs in the Popular Pharmacy program.
Queiroga’s assistants say that Angotti’s fierce defense of the Covid kit has become a headache for the minister. The Senate Human Rights Commission summoned Queiroga and Angotti to explain the rejection of the guidelines.
In addition to evaluating SUS treatments, the Department of Science, Technology, Innovation and Strategic Inputs is seen as strategic in the government for dealing with the health industrial complex, coordinating partnerships between public and private laboratories, among other functions.
New secretary of this portfolio, Sandra commanded the Department of Pharmaceutical Assistance, an area that deals with the complex distribution of medicines to the SUS. The sector organized the distribution of chloroquine during the pandemic.
In the new secretariat, Angotti will be responsible for formulating public policies on health education. He was once director within this folder.
The guidelines on Covid-19 vetoed by Angotti would not have the power to prohibit doctors from using ineffective drugs, but they would represent a stain on Bolsonaro’s denialist banners.
This is because the federal government, through the Ministry of Health, would recognize the guidelines against the so-called early treatment.
Minister Queiroga must evaluate the final appeal against Angotti’s decision to veto these guidelines. He has no deadline to respond.
Queiroga has already made previous attempts to remove Angotti from the leadership of Health, even though he was publicly defending the doctor.
In January, the minister supported discussions in the government about the secretary’s nomination for a vacancy as director of Anvisa (National Health Surveillance Agency), but the idea ran into resistance from Congress to the bolsonarista doctor.
Queiroga did not agree with Angotti’s conduct of the debate on the treatment of Covid-19 in the SUS, according to the minister’s allies.
At the beginning of his administration, the minister appointed the doctor and professor at USP Carlos Carvalho, who was against ineffective drugs, to organize a group that would prepare the opinions.
However, Angotti pointed out possible conflicts of interest in this group and asked the Presidency’s Public Ethics Commission to investigate the opinion that contraindicates the Covid kit.
Even without Queiroga’s approval, the secretary is still trying to exonerate the servant Vania Canuto from the command of Conitec, as she voted in favor of the guidelines prepared by experts. as she showed the sheetAngotti suggests the appointment of biologist Regis Bruni Andriolo, a supporter of the Covid kit, to the post.
A follower of the writer Olavo de Carvalho, Angotti has a good relationship with the president’s assistants and with deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PSL-SP).
Both participated in a government trip to Israel in 2021 to learn about an anti-Covid nasal spray. The secretary was also on social media broadcasts alongside President Bolsonaro.
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