SAO PAULO – Brazil’s health minister Eduardo Pazuello said on Monday that President Jair Bolsonaro is planning to replace him amid the worst throes of COVID-19 in the country yet and after a series of errors decried by public health experts.
One of the candidates to replace him, a renowned cardiologist, has already rejected the job. Pazuello, an active-duty army general, landed the position last May despite having no prior health experience, but instead due to reports of his expertise in logistics. “Yes, the president is thinking about substitution, he is looking at names,” Pazuello said in a press conference in the capital Brasilia. “The president is in negotiations to reorganize the ministry.