Government will exchange hospital debt for specialized care in SUS

We will be $ 2 billion per year of credit, this is our limit, so we will work to get $ 2 billion in care, surgeries, specialized consultations in this second semester, until December.
Alexandre Padilha, Minister of Health, on the distribution of credits

It is a mix of Prouni with unfolding. It is a hybrid from various public management instruments that were used to create a sanitation environment of historical institutions, many of them, centuries -old, which have some indebtedness problem.
Fernando Haddad, Minister of Finance, when explaining the measure

Farm says that exchanges discourage default. According to Haddad, there are 3,537 institutions in this situation, which respond for R $ 34.131 billion in registered debts.

Credit is not tax waiver. According to the Attorney General of Fazenda Anelize de Almeida, the tax credit in exchange for procedures in SUS would not configure as a tax waiver, since much of the debts of hospitals pointed out are considered unrecoverable. “When you make a transaction, when you analyze the debtor’s ability to pay, it is not resignation because it was not even considered an asset.”

Haddad left event early to meet with Lula. The minister returned from vacation yesterday, after a week outside and criticism of the opposition.

Reformed program after failure

The government invested in $ 2.4 billion in 2025 alone to try to resolve the bottleneck, which broke record in 2024. In January alone, $ 590 million were released for this. According to the ministry, the goal for the first half was the conclusion of at least 3.5 million cycles of care, but, sought by Facto News in April, there was no update of these numbers.