Prime Minister Luis Montenegro guaranteed this Sunday that family health will be “one of the axis” of the emergency program for the sector that the government plans to present in June.
“Caring with intimacy and trust. On World Family Doctor Day, I emphasize that family health will be one of the pillars of our emergency care programme. Let’s value medical workers and, together with them, give answers to citizens,” says a message published on the official website of Luis Montenegro. account on the social network “X” (formerly Twitter).
On Wednesday, during the fortnightly debate with the Prime Minister in the Assembly of the Republic, the Chief Executive said that an emergency health care program would be introduced within two weeks, with a particular focus on post-surgical recovery, obstetrics and responses within the family area medicine.
“Within a maximum of two weeks, the country will know about the emergency program that we have in the field of health. This will affect the restoration of waiting times for operations, especially the most problematic ones – for example, oncology. pay special attention to obstetrics and a family medicine response plan for the approximately 1.5 million Portuguese who do not have a family doctor,” he specified.
Luis Montenegro, however, warned that the program would be an emergency and not “a structural transformation that the government intends to carry out in health care” by the end of the legislature, freeing it from ideological complexes.
The group of 13 people who are preparing this plan is coordinated by the former president of Infarmed, Eurico Castro Alves, a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto and a doctor of medicine from ICBAS – Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar. .
In addition to Eurico Castro Alves, the group includes, among others, Alberto Caldas Afonso, pediatrician and director of the Centro Materno-Infantil do Norte; António Marques, professor and anesthesiologist responsible for the Steering Committee of the Ministry of Health’s World Youth Day plan; Catarina Baptista, hospital administrator who was a member of the previous administration led by Ana Paula Martins at the head of the Santa Maria Hospital, and João Gouveia, director of the ULS Central Emergency Service in Santa Maria.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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