Saturday 29 November
2008, San José, Costa
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Brazil, Uruguay Sign
Pact To Facilitate
Healthcare in Border
Region
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Brazil, Uruguay Sign
Pact To Facilitate
Healthcare in Border
Region
Brasilia - Brazil and
Uruguay signed an
agreement Friday to
facilitate healthcare in
the border regions of
the two countries.
"With this measure,
patients can be treated
at hospitals and health
centers of their
neighboring country, and
the costs would be
covered by their own
countries," Brazil's
Ministry of Health said.
Under the agreement,
patients in the border
regions have the right
to receive medical care
even from cesarean
operation to organ
transplant.
"We are providing more
medical services in
those regions and
guaranteeing
constitutional rights
for those communities,"
said Brazil's Health
Minister Jose Gomes
Temporao.
He said this agreement
meant a new stage of
health cooperation,
adding that "I hope that
the experience with
Uruguay can serve as a
model for similar
initiatives with other
countries."
The agreement also
facilitates the release
of documents such as
birth certificate.
"We want to solve the
problems in daily life
of these citizens who
move from one country to
another," said Temporao.
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