Lula sanctions law that creates standards for developing cancer vaccines

President Lula (PT) sanctioned this Friday (10), in the capital of São Paulo, Bill 126, of 2025, which establishes the regulatory framework for vaccines and high-cost medicines against cancer not country.

The law establishes standards for development, search, production, distribution e access to cancer vaccinesfocusing on scientific innovation, universal access e equity in the Unified Health System (SUS), and establishes guidelines for promoting searchhas national production and to international collaboration.

In São Paulo, the PT member inaugurated the Center for Teaching, Simulation and Innovation (Cesin) of the Heart Institute (InCor) of the Hospital das Clínicas of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo.

The Minister of Health, Alexandre Padilha, the Chief Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency of Brazil, Guilherme Boulos, the First Lady Janja Silva and Vice President Geraldo Alckmin, also participated in the event.

“You created a simulation room here. It even has treatment from a psychological point of view. This is something wonderful. Brazil needs to learn a lesson. We need to throw away the mongrel complex that we are small, that we are poor, that we have nothing”, said Lula.

“Any citizen, from any state in Brazil, will now have [um bom tratamento] because we are taking the machine to all Brazilian states. This means just one word: respect for the dignity of human beings”, he highlighted.

The president highlighted the importance of the Unified Health System (SUS) for the country. “The people should not be treated inferior to anyone else. The State needs to guarantee everyone the same condition. Whoever has money can pay or choose [hospital]. Those who don’t have money, the State should deal with.”

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Cesin is a specialized unit at InCor with the proposal to enlarge e modernize teaching initiatives, training e innovation.

According to InCor, the new complex intends to increase health trainingpreparing medical professionals and further qualifying patient care, reducing healthcare risks and accelerating the incorporation of innovative solutions into clinical practice.

“Cesin represents a strategic advance for InCor and for Brazilian public health. We are talking about a center that combines excellent teaching, realistic simulation and technological innovation, with a direct impact on the training of professionals and, mainly, on the safety and quality of care offered to the population by the SUS”, said Roberto Kalil, president of the Board of Directors of InCor-HCFMUSP.

Cesin was designed to reproducewith precision, real healthcare environments. With five floors, the complex was made possible through a parliamentary amendment and brings together eight simulation rooms with real scenariossuch as an emergency room, intensive care unit (ICU) and surgical center, as well as an immersive virtual reality studio, a biobank for storing genetic material, an area dedicated to the Innovation Center (InovaInCor) and a support structure with an auditorium and teaching rooms.

There is also an area dedicated to realistic simulations which, according to InCor, is one of the methodologies most advanced health education in the world.

The rooms reproduce scenarios such as emergency, UTI e surgical centercom technical lighting, gas ruler, heart monitors, defibrillators, mannequins with state-of-the-art technology e real clinical equipment.

In the Center, there is also a area dedicated to surgical skills trainingequipped with complete stations that simulate open and minimally invasive surgery procedures.

The space will allow training with a high level of realism, including the use of equipment such as respirators, anesthesia machines, cardiopulmonary bypass and video towers.

In addition to training and qualifying professionals, Cesin also aims to be a innovation huballowing to test and validate new devices, therapies, care processes and digital technologies, including artificial intelligence and immersive virtual simulations.

“With this center, InCor now has another structure so that training, which was already very important, can be expanded even further”, said the Minister of Health, Alexandre Padilha.

“This new center will improve the training of future health professionals and will help to do this throughout the country. This is another step towards the digital revolution that we are carrying out and which aims to increasingly bring to health in Brazil the best knowledge available today about internet connection, telediagnosis, telecare and artificial intelligence”, added the minister.

Investments

Minister Alexandre Padilha announced a package of R$ 100 million in investments in InCor. Of this total, part will be allocated to the new center.

“Around R$45 million of this resource from the Ministry of Health went to building, equipping and implementing this simulation center, which will allow us to improve the training not only of its professionals, but of professionals from all over Brazil,” the minister told journalists.

This Friday, InCor’s membership as a mentor institution of the Mais Médicos Especialistas project and signed a transfer of resources for the implementation of the HCFMUSP Telehealth Center, which will allow specialization of professionals in the areas of obstetrics e ardiologywith an investment of more than R$9 million.

“With this resource, we will help pregnant women from all areas of the country, through Telehealth”, said Padilha.

According to the minister, the government will soon install the first intelligent public hospital at Hospital das Clínicas de São Paulo.

“We will have the first urgency and emergency intelligence hospital here at HC. We will build a hospital here with 700 beds, 100% intelligent”, said Padilha.

According to the Ministry of Health, the smart hospital will combine artificial intelligence, with ambulances connected to 5G and telehealth.

The objective is to reduce treatment time in serious cases of up to 17 hours for just 2 hours.

*With information from Agência Brasil