Thread: Health care in Brazil...

I wonder how's the clinics and hospital over there? Are they plenty and affordable as well easily available all the time?

As a result of good Infrastructure, hospitals are well developed and have all sufficient advanced technology instruments. And most importantly , they are quite affordable ...

That's nice to hear, health care is really important in every country and good to know it's affordable.

The constitution of Brazil grants all Brazilian citizens the right to procure free medical assistance from public as well as private providers reimbursed by the government. Is that correct?

If you are comming to Brazil the best is to have a healt secure, it is cheap and warant you to see a doctor any time you need. There is one called Vital Card Brazil, they are able even to send you a doctor at home, you´ll have even a life security. And it is not expensive it is all afordable.

The constitution grants all Brazilian citizens the right to procure free medical assistance from public as well as private providers reimbursed by the government. While the public domain oversees basic and preventive health care, the private nonprofit and for-profit health care sector delivers the bulk of medical services, including government-subsidized inpatient care (that is, private facilities owned 71 percent of hospital beds designated for government-funded health care in 1993). This publicly financed, privately provided health system continues to intensify its focus on high-cost curative care, driving hospital costs up by 70 percent during the 1980s.

Originally Posted by nuaeman

I wonder how's the clinics and hospital over there? Are they plenty and affordable as well easily available all the time?

There are about 7500 hospitals in Brazil of which 4000 plus are private so there is less to worry regarding accessibility to hospitals. One can also take comfort to know that there are more doctors in Brazil than the average doctors to patient ratio - this is according to UN of course.