Rodrigo Pacheco: Minas has continental dimensions: with more than 586,000 square kilometers, our territory surpasses that of France and Spain.
Rodrigo Pacheco: We are 853 municipalities and more than 21 million inhabitants distributed across biomes, terrains and social realities that are profoundly distinct.
Managing health in that territory is a mission that requires scientific planning, strategic investment and responsible regionalization.
Rodrigo Pacheco: We cannot concentrate high-complexity care only in the capital and the major centers.
Rodrigo Pacheco: Each hour a patient spends in an ambulance traveling hundreds of kilometers is one less hour of survival.