a Ministry of Health This Tuesday (30) he launched the “Guide to Physical Activity for the Population of Brazil”, with the aim of guiding the population in the practice of physical activities.
However, the file did not invite those responsible for preparing it to the launch event. The guide was prepared by a group of about 70 researchers in a . format Pedro HilalProfessor of Physical Education and Epidemiology at the Federal University of Pelotas.
According to him, the ministry had already summoned the researchers to the ceremony in an earlier anticipation of the launch, still under the direction of Eduardo Pazuelo. The event, however, was postponed.
A month ago, he says, the group also sent a letter to the ministry questioning the delay in scheduling the event. About ten days ago, the group received notification that the launch would take place, and also asked if there would be an identification of the researchers’ representative.
Halal says he questioned the ministry without an answer but did not receive a response.
And last weekend, the researchers and I were invited to watch the concert on YouTube. And I answered him at once: Look, we are waiting for the invitation to be part of the party, and we do not follow it. The YouTube. But they did not respond to the email.”
“The result is that no one was invited to participate. If I take previous experiences, it seems to me that this is the first time a guide has been released without the participation of any of the people who wrote the document.”
The situation happened days after Hilal’s testimony in CPI to CovidWhen he criticized the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro and stated this 400,000 deaths could have been avoided If Brazil had adopted measures to control the epidemic – such as effective vaccination, social isolation and encouragement to wear masks.
“It was clearly a repressive attitude toward me, out of retaliation, that ended up persecuting 68 other researchers who did not testify at CPI who had spent two years working on this project and had their work undervalued,” he says.
Last year, Hilal questioned the ministry for suspending funding for another project, EpiCovid research.
In 2020, Halal was also the target of an investigation by the CGU (Controller General of the Federation) for making a “disrespectful and disrespectful statement addressed to the President of the Republic” at the university’s online event on Covid-19 and signed a behavior modification term to close the case.
He was banned from holding any kind of political demonstrations inside the university and ordered to attend a public service ethics course.
According to him, after he was excluded from the Tuesday event, the researchers plan to release a new version on their own on Thursday, 4 p.m., at a location to be determined.
At the event, representatives of the ministry stated that the document was prepared by 70 researchers, but the names were not mentioned.
And the file stated, in a statement, that “all researchers who participated in the preparation of the “Guide to Physical Activity for the Brazilian Population” received an official statement of thanks and an invitation to participate in the ceremony on Tuesday, approximately, while maintaining security protocols due to the epidemic.”
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