The Ministry of Health presented a contract notice from today until Thursday for 3 174 new posts for the More Doctors programme to guarantee health care for more than 63 million Brazilians.

Of this total, 3 066 positions will be distributed in 1 620 municipalities and 108 will be allocated to 26 Special Indigenous Health Districts (DSEI), to strengthen care in remote and socially vulnerable regions.

The portfolio indicates that there is an important connection between More Doctors, the strengthening of Primary Health Care and the ongoing effort to accelerate specialised care in the state’s Unified Health System (SUS), one of the main concerns of the administration.

«The integrated work of these professionals, through electronic medical records and flows that will reduce waiting times for patients, will facilitate access to medium and high complexity care for all citizens,» said the Minister of Health, Alexandre Padilha.

The programme’s professionals are part of the Family Health teams, which provide care and follow-up closer to the population.

This information is recorded in the Electronic Health Record (e-SUS APS), which allows the integration of patient data between primary and specialised care, including consultations and examinations. More doctors will bring care to the places where it is most needed.

In this notice, the programme’s vacancy offer considered the current scenario of the distribution of professionals in the country, according to Medical Demographics 2025.

This study indicates the ratio of doctors per inhabitant in the different regions of the South American giant.

For the most part, the vacancies in the call cover vulnerable regions in small (75.1 per cent), medium (11.1 per cent) and large (13.8 per cent) municipalities.

«Once again, Más Médicos is fulfilling its role of providing professionals to the most remote and vulnerable areas, while offering training opportunities for doctors, from specialisation in Family and Community Medicine to masters and doctoral degrees in Family Health,» said the Secretary of Labour Management and Health Education, Felipe Proenço.

The opportunities are distributed among three profiles: doctors trained in Brazil and registered with the Regional Council of Medicine (CRM), Brazilian doctors trained abroad and qualified foreigners.

Established in 2013 under the government of President Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016), More Doctors has the goal of incorporating 28,000 professionals, and currently has around 24.9 thousand working in 4.2 thousand municipalities, which represents 77% of the national territory.

Among these localities, 1,700 have high levels of social vulnerability.