The president of Anvisa (National Health Surveillance Agency), Antonio Barra Torres, said this Wednesday (16) that directors and technicians of the regulatory body have received 458 threats since the vaccination of children for Covid-19 came on the agenda.
In a hearing at the Senate Human Rights Commission, Barra Torres said that the attacks create a climate of “unnecessary insecurity and tension”.
The threats became more frequent after President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), who is a vector of misinformation about immunization, stated that he would expose the name of technicians from the body who approved the use of Pfizer doses in the 5 to 11 age range.
The agency has informed the Federal Police and the Federal Supreme Court (STF) about the threats. The number of attacks cited by Barra Torres was added up to February 14th.
He acknowledged that Bolsonaro’s speeches coincide with the increase in threats to Anvisa.
“This other one that has now been added, which is the concern for one’s own security, is totally inappropriate and unnecessary, but unfortunately, it is there. This environment is an environment of insecurity”, he told the senators.
Barra Torres told Sheet, at the end of December, that Bolsonaro encourages threatening crimes against members of the body.
The president of Anvisa was called to the Senate to talk about vaccination of children and about a document from the Ministry of Health that defended the use of hydroxychloroquine and said that vaccines do not work against the same disease.
Barra Torres said that Anvisa did not participate in the preparation of the document. She also stated that the agency does not agree with the arguments.
The agency’s president declared that it causes “perplexity” and “concern” to consider the off-label use (outside the directions on the package insert) of hydroxychloroquine as a public policy against Covid-19. “I can’t envision a reasonableness,” said Barra Torres.
The senators of the Senate Human Rights Commission have been working to keep warm the topics that were addressed in the Covid CPI.
The collegiate will also receive ministers Marcelo Queiroga (Health) and Damares Alves (Women, Family and Human Rights) to deal with the fight against the pandemic and the vaccination of children.
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