Billionaire wrote article about “life-saving lessons from Brazil”
Founder of Microsoft, billionaire Bill Gates praised the Unified Health System (SUS), calling Brazil’s record in the health sector “impressive”. The speech was given in his article Life Saving Lessons from Brazilpublished this Tuesday (12) on the tycoon’s blog, Gate’s Notes.
– It was only when I started working in public health that I began to appreciate how impressive the country’s record in this area is, and how much the rest of the world could learn from it – he said.
In the text, Gates states that the SUS managed to reduce “maternal mortality by 60%”, and infant mortality “by 75%”, “far exceeding global trends” and increasing “life expectancy by almost a decade”.
– None of these achievements were accidental. These are the results of long-term investments that Brazil made in its primary health system, from which other countries can learn and imitate – he highlighted.
The billionaire also highlighted, in his article, that currently the SUS has “more than 286 thousand agents who serve almost two thirds of the population, almost 160 million people”.
– In Brazil, they act as a gateway to the largest free and universal public health system in the world, and their impact has been transformative – he pointed out.
Gates went further and also praised Bolsa Família, saying that the program expanded “access and use of health care”, “giving people an incentive to enter the health system”.
By: Pleno News
