Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s new president, began his four-year mandate on January 1st. One of the attributions of the new Brazilian leader is the structuring of his team and his ministers are the most important people in this group.

The new Health Minister, Luiz Henrique Mandeta, is a doctor from Campo Grande city, Mato Grosso do Sul state (MT). He was invested in this position on January 2nd. In his inaugural speech he said, “We will write together a new page in public health” and pointed out his priorities: health promotion and disease prevention with the strengthening of Primary Care, strengthening of vaccination rates and computerization of the whole Health network, among others.

About sanitary surveillance and consequently ANVISA’s role, the minister mentioned: “We will reorganize sanitary surveillance so that we will have a more organized, attentive and fast system. Surveillance will do surveillance, and do it well”.

DOMO Salute wishes that the new minister exert his mandate with competency and responsibility, while we will continue performing our mission in the sanitary surveillance field: enabling the access of the new medical technologies to the Brazilian population and strictly enforcing what is predicted in the Brazilian legislation.

Know more about his professional career:

Luiz Hernique Mandetta is a doctor and he has a degree in Orthopedics, with specialization on Pediatrics Orthopedics (Atlanta, Georgia – USA). He has studied Health System and Service Management at FGV, Brazil.

In the beginning of his career, he he was a doctor at HGE and in the 1990s worked at SCCGH and the University Hospital. He taught post-graduate courses at the FUMS. In the early 2000s, he was technical counselor at Santa Casa Hospital, president at Unimed and counselor at Regional Medicine Council of Mato Grosso do Sul.

In the public sector, he was City Health Secretary of Campo Grande city between 2005 and 2010. After this time, he has elected as a congressman by Mato Grosso do Sul State for two mandates (2011 to 2018), where his effort was concentrated on social assistance, mainly in health, medicine, social assists and education, besides being the representative of the of the Brazilian Congress in Mercosur Parlament.

Diego Louzada – Co-founder and Business Developer of Domo Salute

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http://portalms.saude.gov.br/o-ministro

http://portalms.saude.gov.br/noticias/agencia-saude/45054-luiz-henrique-mandetta-assume-ministerio-da-saude

http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/L9782.htm