Former Health Minister Marta Temido this Wednesday expressed her readiness to provide any clarification requested by Parliament, the Ministry or health organizations regarding the case of the treatment of twins at the Santa Maria Hospital.
This information was provided to Lusa by a source from the PS parliamentary group after IL announced a request to request urgent parliamentary hearings of former Health Minister and current PS MP Marta Temido, as well as her former Secretary of State António Lacerda Sales and the former and current administration of the Santa Maria Hospital.
According to the source, “Marta Temido is clearly ready to provide all necessary clarifications to any person who wishes to request them on this matter.”
“Whether it is the Assembly of the Republic, the Ministry of State, the health regulatory authority or the General Inspectorate of Health Activities, or any other body that wishes to request an explanation,” he added.
The case in point is a TVI report aired in early November that two Portuguese-Brazilian twins traveled to Portugal in 2019 to take the drug Zolgensma, one of the world’s most expensive treatments for spinal muscular atrophy, with a total supply of four million. Euro.
According to TVI, there were suspicions that this was due to the influence of the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who, however, denied any interference in the matter.
This Wednesday, in statements to journalists in Parliament, IL President Rui Rocha said that the party had been waiting since the beginning of November, when the case was made public, to understand whether more information had become known and whether more information had been provided. explanations, but concluded that “there are no facts to explain the decisions made.”
“The Liberal Initiative decided to submit a request to the then Minister of Health Marta Temido to be summoned to parliament to give an explanation,” he said.
According to the request, the request for hearing is urgent and covers not only Marta Temido, but also Antonio Lacerda Sales, then Minister of Health, as well as the former and current President of the Board of Directors of the Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Center. Norte, Daniel Ferro and Ana Paula Martins respectively.
“The President of the Republic claims that he had no interference. It is necessary that the responsible persons and administrations of that time come and give explanations,” Rui Rocha emphasized.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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