Brazil: four health ministers heard on the management of the health crisis

Activists hold up crosses referring to the 400,000 deaths linked to Covid-19 in Brazil during a demonstration against the government's handling of the pandemic in front of the Presidential Palace of Planalto in Brasilia on May 1, 2021. AP - Eraldo Peres

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In Brazil, the management of the health crisis by the Bolsonaro government is at the center of a Senate commission of inquiry.

We get to the heart of the matter from this Tuesday with the hearing of the four ministers of health who have followed one another since the start of the pandemic. 

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With our correspondent in Sao Paulo,

Martin Bernard

It is the tension of the great days in Brasilia.

The Ministers of Health - there were 4 in a year -, will have to reveal the behind the scenes of the management of this crisis, which has already led to the death of 400,000 people and reveal what President Bolsonaro was telling them in private . 

It is

Luiz Henrique Mandetta

who will be the first to be heard by the eleven senators who join the committee.

He has become a staunch opponent of Jair Bolsonaro during the pandemic, and he could make new revelations.

But the big day will be Wednesday, when General Pazuello will be called to the bar.

This soldier held the post of Minister of Health for ten months.

He is accused of having delayed the purchase of vaccines and of defending the use of chloroquine, an anti-malaria drug that is not effective against Covid. 

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See also: Brazil changes its Minister of Health and course in the management of the health crisis

But General Pazuello does not want to serve as a scapegoat, because as he already said at a press conference: “

 There are those who command, and those who obey. 

“Understandably, the one in charge is Jair Bolsonaro.

► To read also: Commission of inquiry into the Covid-19 in Brazil: Bolsonaro will have to "be held accountable"

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