Paço do Lumiar Mayor Ends Internship Deal With Ceuma After Medical Student’s Video Insults City

Overview

• Mayor Fred Campos ended the city’s partnership with Universidade Ceuma and barred its medical trainees from municipal clinics after a student’s mocking video spread online.
• The video showed the student’s white sneakers and the clinic facade with a caption calling Paço do Lumiar the “C# of Maranhão,” using a meme audio; the post was later deleted.
• Campos said he would file a criminal representation with state prosecutors and police for alleged qualified injury, a charge that can open a formal investigation in Brazil.
• Ceuma issued an apology, opened an individual disciplinary inquiry, and urged that uninvolved students not face collective penalties for one person’s conduct.
• Classmates and the medical student council condemned the behavior and asked the mayor to reconsider the blanket ban, while the student’s parents said he acted impulsively, reported threats against the family, and noted the suspension could disrupt training and local care supported by internship agreements.