Rendering of accounts

Abstract

It is with great satisfaction that we speak to everyone, to account for our mandate (2011)(2012)(2013)(2014) ahead of the Brazilian Medical Association (AMB), a leading and thriving entity that fights bravely for the causes of health and medicine in Brazil.We began our management putting things in the right place, from a managerial and administrative standpoint. We organized processes, flows, responsibilities and values , after receiving the report of a consulting firm (Ernst & Young, hired for this purpose). Getting started was not easy because the problems included a financial deficit that hindered the implementation of several activities. We adopted the motto "only spend what you have, and the resources of the institution belong to the AMB."We launched, together with the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) and the National Medicine Academy, a successful project leading to a Bill called More Health (or Health +10), aiming at improving public health funding, forcing the federal government to allocate 10% of its gross current revenue (equivalent to approximately 18% of net current revenues) to the sector. The project was successful because, jointly with many other prominent medical organizations and agencies from other sectors, such as the National Conference of Catholic Bishops of Brazil (CNBB), we managed to gather over 2.5 million signatures to pass the bill (the minimum required was about 1.4 million). The state of Minas Gerais gave a great example, getting over 700 thousand signatures, and we also emphasize the commitment of the Legislative Assembly and the Medical Association of Minas Gerais. We visited many states (Pará, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul, etc.). And even with that number of signatures, the project "sleeps" in the national congress, because the "powerful hand of the government" is not interested in securing health financing. In recent years, the federal government has invested a smaller proportion of funds compared to the resources provided by states and municipalities.We focus on an increasingly closer relationship with federated associations and specialty societies, notably for the stubborn defense of quality medical education, either at undergraduate or postgraduate level. We strengthened our title of specialist, which has quality, and we do not turn a blind eye to the political and electoral follies of quantity superseding quality. We advocate an adequate number of physicians according to our demand, distributed in different regions, states and cities in the country, based on the need of specialists according to technical and epidemiological criteria. Never training without quality. Furthermore, we preach exhaustively that health is achieved not only with doctors. Medical residency is our flag, along with the specialty societies. There is harmony among the medical societies and the struggle for quality in medical education prevails.We sat down with everyone who came to us and is involved with health and medicine: governments...