We need investment in public health, stop handing over the health of our people to social organizations and outsource our health. There are huge queues, lack of doctors and devaluation of nursing professionals, for example, who do not receive their flooring correctly. We at Unidad Popular defend investment in health, taking hospitals to the interior and ensuring that hospital roofs stop falling on our heads.
Health, in fact, is in chaos in Pernambuco. People are dying due to lack of care. We will guarantee more vacancies, more beds, with new hospitals, with renovation, but it is essential to end contracts with OSs [social organizations]. These companies make a profit, like Imip. We really want health money to go to health. With this, we will value health professionals, who earn very little, taking risks, saving people's lives. So, this is our program. Quality public healthcare, not a single cent for a private company.
The interior is beautiful, it is close to the hospital. If your health needs crucial care, you will receive care without having to rush to the capital. I'm not going to be the governor who celebrates the number of patients in hospitals. I will be the governor who will say that he has reduced the number of people who need to enter public health facilities. So, we need to invest heavily in basic care. Pernambuco is one of the states in the country where basic care reaches fewer people. So, that's what we're going to do. The state can also lead the process of internalizing healthcare from homes. So it is necessary for the state to promote residences for specialists who are needed in hospitals in the interior, so that the cities in the interior do not have to invest so much money in TFDs [treatment outside the home], bringing so many people to fill hospitals here in the capital. We need to have a health policy and not a disease policy, which celebrates when more people are sick so that we can care for them.
The health of Pernambuco is at a critical moment. No new hospitals have been built in recent years and the network needs maintenance and new equipment. I will build four new hospitals, a hospital in the Sertão de São Francisco, a hospital in the Sertão do Araripe, the Hospital da Criança do Agreste, in Caruaru, and we will build the largest hospital in the Brazilian Northeast, the Hospital Geral Metropolitano, with more than 900 beds, which will be located on the border between Recife and Jaboatão. This large hospital will have more than 5 thousand professionals working there and will be able to clear the queues for surgeries in the Metropolitan Region, serving more than 3 million people from Pernambuco. In addition, we will requalify existing hospitals and create new cancer treatment centers and regional centers to welcome neurodivergent children and provide physiotherapy, T.O. [occupational therapy], speech therapy for children with ASD [autism spectrum disorder]. Let's really take care of our health.
Look, you who are at home, at work, watching us, know very well that, in January 2023, we found a public health network in the state of Pernambuco completely scrapped and abandoned. I didn't even have a maintenance contract. The Hospital da Restauração was the great symbol of this abandonment and there, when we started to replace the kitchen floor, we even found burst sewage beneath it. There are already more than R$150 million in investment that is under construction and execution. But it's not just there. The Otávio de Freitas Hospital, the Procape Hospital, the Agreste Regional Hospital, Getúlio Vargas, the Barão de Lucena. Everyone is having their equipment changed. From the stretcher, the armchair, the technology equipment. All this to better serve our patients with more comfort and precision. We delivered a Women's Hospital in Agreste. We are under construction with four more that we will deliver. Mestre Dominguinhos, from Garanhuns, is also under construction. We will make, as we are already doing, the largest investment in public health in the history of Pernambuco.
The problem is budgetary, which is why we have so many neglects in the health of Pernambuco. We will act in three phases. Firstly, we will integrate the medical records and reduce losses. With artificial intelligence and 'machine learning', we will have control over inventory and no longer have so many losses. Second, we have to speed up service. We will use telereports and strengthen both health in the interior and urgently renovate the five units here in the Metropolitan Region. Third, we will need to decentralize. Today, the oncology system is practically in Recife. We are going to create the Josué de Castro Network, where people will be able to receive cancer care in the interior.
