The leader of the Bloco de Esquerda (BE) warned this Sunday about the problem of a shortage of kindergartens in a country with “only 50% coverage”, saying the solution involves integrating the service into the education system.
“We are about to start a new school year, a new year in which parents are looking for a place to leave their children and cannot find it,” said Mariana Mortagua in Alcorriola at the annual sardinhade organized by the blocking council of Torres Novas. (Santarén), noting that “in Portugal, the kindergarten enrollment rate is 50%” and that it “affects thousands of families”.
The BE coordinator, who announced “a request to the government next week to discuss the issue of kindergartens,” emphasized that this is “a serious problem in a country that is struggling with fertility problems and in which families are under great pressure.” the problem of prices for housing and basic commodities”, stating that “it is possible in different ways and well”.
In this sense, he defended, and given that “free kindergartens”, a measure he praises, “does not reach everyone who needs them”, BE argues that, on the one hand, kindergartens “should be part of the system education “and that, on the other hand, the government should allow the municipal councils to enter into an agreement with Social Security so that they can have their own kindergartens.”
121 people registered for the annual Bloco de Esquerda de Torres Novas dinner, which marks its eighth edition, with the local council highlighting the importance of fraternization between militants, as well as touching on topics of concern to the population, such as the case of housing prices or the absence of family doctors. .
In the case of housing, the BE leader said that “the problem (…) cannot be solved by increasing effort rates alone” and that this will only happen “when banks are forced to renegotiate home loans and lower the interest rates that people currently time are blamed.”
In terms of healthcare, Mariana Mortagua said that the problem of a shortage of doctors in Torres Novas is “structural” and “pervasive” for the whole country and that this is because the government “has not taken care to be able to attract doctors to places where harder to be.”
For the BE leader, “there is a way to solve” the problem, reminding that “doctors have been talking about this for a long time.”
“It’s about creating an attractive career for doctors who will work in the National Health Service (NHS)” so that we have a NHS with organizational capabilities throughout the territory, and not the way it is at the moment. The government should listen to professionals,” he concluded.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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