Unidade de Pronto Atendimento

[1] The UPAs offer pediatric, clinical, and dental urgency care, as well as reception, risk classification, laboratory and X-ray exams, and individual observation.

The "tin UPAs", made with panels and steel and that would have cost more than the brick ones, were supplied by Metallurgia Valença.

In a plea bargained agreement, the former undersecretary of Health, Cesar Romero Vianna Junior, said that each unit of the type that was built generated R$1.0 million in undue advantages.

The lawyers of Ronald de Carvalho, owner of Metallurgia Valença, declared that there were no irregularities in the supply of the modules.

[2][9] The UPAs model was also imported by Argentina; the city of Buenos Aires, for example, had 12 units in July 2015.