Plight of ten-year-old reveals cracks in Brazil's health care Sweeping protests in Brazil last June revealed the darker side of the South America's rising star. Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets for better health care. Only a quarter of the country's population has access to proper medical care, while the rest, like 10-year old Thais waiting for a new kidney, depend on the slow, underfunded and understaffed public health system. According to an official report, there are 13,000 people, including 730 children, on the waiting list for surgeries in federal hospitals in the state of Rio. A natural sound version of an AFPTV report.