Brazil health cameras irk staff 巴西健康中心安装摄像头，员工对此颇有微词

The mayor of a Brazilian town has provoked complaints after he installed cameras in a health centre to monitor the quality of service to the public.

巴西一城市市长因为在一个健康中心安装摄像头监视服务质量而激起抱怨。

The cameras send images and sound from the reception and a pharmacy¹ directly to the offices of the mayor of Foz do Iguacu and other senior officials.

He said it was to improve efficiency, and he wanted to extend the scheme（方案，计划） to 28 other sites.

But some staff and residents said the project is a breach²（裂口，违背） of patient privacy.

Employees of the health centre have signed a petition（请愿，祈求） complaining about the intense level of scrutiny³（研究）, while opinion among patients appears to be divided.

However, Mayor Paulo MacDonald told Brazil's TV Globo he wanted to see the scheme extended to all 28 local health centres, to help prevent problems encountered in the past.

"We have received many complaints about poor service, sometimes rudeness by the public with staff, sometimes about people waiting while members of staff were doing less important things," he said.

But the local health department said that to monitor the work of medical professionals, and to do this in an area where patients can be gravely ill, sometimes with psychiatric（精神病的） problems, was an invasion of privacy and illegal.

It has called on the mayor to remove the equipment immediately and said it may pursue legal action as well.