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A man was beaten in front of the Lula Institute after Judge Sérgio Moro ordered the arrest of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva late Thursday, for crimes of passive corruption and money laundering. The senator Lindbergh Farias (PT-RJ) was giving an interview in front of the place, in the Ipiranga neighborhood, south zone of São Paulo, when the man not yet identified interrupted the interview with shouts. "Come and fight with me, your thief. You'll not you be reelected again, you idiot?", shouted the protester. The senator then turned to the visibly irritated man and challenged him to talk face to face. At the same time, other supporters of the former president began to beat and kick the protester who ended up banging his head on a truck that was passing by. Lying on the ground, the protester continued to be kicked and then was carried by security guards to the Hospital São Camilo, which is in front of the Lula Institute. The leaders of the PT ...

Which teacher never gained a gift or even a snack from your student? The gesture simple and affectionate almost resulted in the death of teacher Ednalva Souza, victim of a poisoning. The suspects are three boys between the ages of 7 and 8, their students. Ednalva is a teacher of the 2nd year of primary education at Educandário Santana Amorim, at Aiene Miranda street, in the Floresta Negra neighborhood, where the event happened last Friday. One witness reported that, Ednalva received a stuffed biscuit containing chumbinho, a Brazilian poison used to kill rats. She was taken to the Roberto Santos Hospital, where she has already been discharged. According to the communication office of the Health Department of the State of Bahia, the teacher was admitted to the unit with signs of poisoning. But the dose was considered small, it went through a stomach wash and was released the same day.

People awaiting care at a public hospital in Rio de Janeiro The financial crisis of the State of Rio de Janeiro, paralyzed hospitals and reaches different sectors of the administration of governor Luiz Fernando Pezão. "The Rio de Janeiro is broken, bankrupt," said the doctor Jorge Darze, president of Sinmed/RJ (Syndicate of Doctors of Rio de Janeiro). The syndicate of doctors and other government agencies that are responsible for oversee the actions of the governor and the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, formed a crisis cabinet to monitor the situation. The group wants an audit of accounts to find out, after all, why the state coffers are empty. In practice, they should be experiencing other reasons to justify what is happening today. At the same time, the subway extension works continue, new parks were built  and overpriced works of the Olympics are far from being finalized. The conclusion is that the money which should be allocated to health, was used in infrastructur...

X-ray device out of use: harm to the population While waiting lists for examinations increase every day in São Paulo, two large hospitals are keeping expensive CT scanners and X-ray stored, without use. At Children's Hospital Darcy Vargas, a high-tech X-ray equipment is stored in the hospital for almost two years, without even having been withdrawn of the box. The machine valued at BRL 1 million is exposed to temperature changes and technological depreciation. Without the possibility to realize an examination at her daughter, who had just operate the column, the unemployed press operator Cassiano Jose Pantaleon had to spend out of pocket to realize the examination in private hospitals. "If I hadn't the $75, my daughter couldn't to do the X-ray?" He says. In the Southern Regional Hospital, in São Paulo (SP), one scanner valued at BRL 1.5 million is boxed for three months. The tomography device is used in the diagnosis of neurological, cardiac di...