One day after demanding that the Armed Forces explain the purchase of 35,000 viagra tablets, deputy Elias Vaz asked them on Tuesday also clarify why and for what they purchased 60 penile prostheses worth R$3.5 million (about $744,680).
Both purchases were discovered by the legislator of the opposition Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) in a review of official documents on the management of military budgets.
“After denouncing that the Government (of President Jair) Bolsonaro approved the purchase of 35,000 viagra capsules for the Armed Forces, I identified a millionaire expenditure on penile prostheses for the Army,” the congressman said in a message on his social networks.
“Do you know how much each one costs? Between 50,000 and 60,000 reais (between about 10,640 and 12,765 dollars). And it is you (taxpayer) who is paying that bill,” added the deputy.
Vaz also said that, in addition to requesting that the Prosecutor's Office and the Court of Auditors of the Union (TCU) investigate possible irregularities, he also filed a request on Tuesday for Congress to set up a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (ICC) to clarify the matter.
Complaints about the disputed purchases of the Armed Forces have become the subject of numerous memes about the “powerlessness” of the Brazilian military that circulate virally on social media in Brazil.
According to documents discovered by Vaz and Senator Jorge Kakuru, the Brazilian Army spent R$3.5 million on three different tenders held last year to buy 60 silicone penis prostheses with extensions ranging from 10 to 25 centimeters.
The prostheses indicated for cases of erectile dysfunction were delivered to army hospitals in the states of San Pablo and Mato Grosso do Sul.
Despite such information available on the Government's own Transparency Portal and on the Federal Government's Price Panel, the Army reported in a statement that it acquired only three units last year for “surgeries of beneficiaries of the Army Health Fund”.
The day before, the same deputy reported that the Army, Air Force and Navy purchased 35,000 tablets of viagra, the pill used to combat erectile dysfunction, in tenders held in 2020 and 2021.
“We need to understand why the government is spending public money on viagra and that high amount,” said the legislator, referring to the management of Bolsonaro, an Army reserve captain who holds a record of military personnel as his auxiliaries and in his own Cabinet.
“Hospitals across the country often face a lack of medicines, such as insulin, to care for patients with chronic illnesses, and the Military receives thousands of viagra pills. Society deserves an explanation,” he added.
Regarding purchases of viagra, the Ministry of Defense clarified that Sildenafila, the active substance of the drug, was purchased for the treatment in military hospitals of cases of pulmonary arterial hypertension, a rare disease that mainly affects women.
The specialists, however, clarified that the Armed Forces purchased tablets with between 25 and 50 milligrams of Sildnafila, which are indicated to treat erectile dysfunction, and not the 20-millimeter tablets, used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension.
(With information from EFE)
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