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Brazil unveils plan to hire 10,000 doctors for poor areas

by BBC News

Protesters gathered outside the National Congress building in Brasilia and climbed on the roof. Photo: Reuters

The shake-up will include employing foreign doctors for the first time from September, as well as changes to the university medicine curriculum.

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