"With this measure, patients can be treated at hospitals and health centers of their neighboring country, and the costs would be covered by their own countries," Brazil's Ministry of Health said.
Under the agreement, patients in the border regions have the right to receive medical care even from cesarean operation to organ transplant.
"We are providing more medical services in those regions and guaranteeing constitutional rights for those communities," said Brazil's Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao.
He said this agreement meant a new stage of health cooperation, adding that "I hope that the experience with Uruguay can serve as a model for similar initiatives with other countries."
The agreement also facilitates the release of documents such as birth certificate.
"We want to solve the problems in daily life of these citizens who move from one country to another," said Temporao.
