One of Brazil’s biggest healthcare providers, the Prevent Senior Hospital Chain, faced fire by the Senate for taking illegal action in providing their elder patients, diagnosed with COVID -19, untested drugs without their knowledge to appease President Jair Bolsonaro’s  ‘miracle cure’. Between the months of March and April 2020, about nine senior patients died solely by “COVID -19”, declares the Prevent Senior Hospital. However, studies came to find that the doctors and other healthcare workers at the hospital altered the cause of death in each of these patients’ records. When facing these many accusations, owner and executive director of the hospital chain, Pedro Batista, denied these accusations made by the court by saying that the hospital “rigorously reported” all the deaths in the hospital. Batista also denied the accusations of altering the patient’s records by claiming that each patient had been hospitalized for two weeks and were no longer at risk of spreading around the disease. Batista also went on to say that the patients were ‘prescribed’ these tests by the doctors and nurses at the hospital. Tuesday, September 21, 2021, a company that represented about twelve doctors who worked at the hospital said that the Prevent Senior Hospital had both threatened and fired doctors who did not agree to their “COVID kit” which included drugs such as hydroxychloroquine, erythromycin and ivermectin which all have no use in treating patients with COVID- 19. Prevent Senior Hospital denied the accusations against them once again by dismissing the fact of threatening and firing doctors that did not agree to the use of the “COVID kit”.

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In a speech made at the United Nations, President Jair Bolsonaro, had yet again tried to praise the hospital’s actions of using untested drugs on patients by claiming that science will one day justify their illegal endeavors. 

Statistics show that the COVID-19 pandemic has killed almost 600,000 Brazilians.