“By promoting this discussion, we are contributing not only to avoid the judicialization of health, but also to improve the provision of services to citizens and guarantee access to treatment in a fair and balanced manner,” said Justice Maysa Vendramini Rosal, president of the Court of Justice of the State of Tocantins, when she opened the Forum on Law and Health: focusing on the judicialization of health, on Monday afternoon (February 17th), in the auditorium of the TJTO.
For the president, the event is a milestone in the search for a balance between protecting the right to health and responsible public management. In this sense, she emphasized the need to guarantee the effectiveness of the right to health, without compromising public management, so that “a more effective health system for the country” can be built, she said.
During the programming of the event, Binding Precedents 60 and 61 were addressed, which deal with the right to health and the obligation of the State to provide necessary medicines and treatments, even when not provided for in public policies; as well as the themes 1.234 and 6, with general repercussion, which deal with the effectiveness of public health policies in the face of judicialization.
The event is being promoted by the Judiciary of the state of Tocantins, through the management committee that deals with the policy of comprehensive health care for magistrates and civil servers, in partnership with the Superior School of the Judges of the State of Tocantins (Esmat).
Justice Pedro Nelson de Miranda Coutinho, general chief of Justice and chairman of the management committee, coordinator of the Forum, stressed that the topic is of great relevance, as it deals with the importance of the participation of magistrates and civil servers in the search for information to support judicial decisions related to health. “Given the high demand for health issues in the judicial system, it is essential that professionals in the area have the necessary tools and information to make more effective and fair decisions, improving management and the quality of the responses offered to the population,” he stressed.
The minister of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ), Ricardo Villas Bôas Cueva; the federal justice of the 4th Region of the TRF, João Pedro Gebran Neto; and federal judge Clênio Jair Schulze, speakers at the forum, were part of the opening panel of the event.
Also present were Eduardo Siqueira Campos, mayor of Palmas; Gedeon Pitaluga, president of the BAR/TO; Abel Andrade Leal, general attorney; Pedro Alexandre Conceição Aires Gonçalves, public defender of the state of Tocantins; Irana Coelho, general attorney of the State; and Álvaro Lotufo Manzano, federal prosecutor in the state of Tocantins.
Tribute
Before the event, Justice Ricardo Villas Bôas Cueva was received by Justice Maysa Vendramini Rosal, president of the TJTO, when a plaque in his honor was unveiled in the gallery of illustrious visitors and the Book of Notable Records was signed.
