Pizarro says the government does not have an “ideological obsession” with turning to the private sector.

Health Minister Manuel Pizarro said Tuesday in Beja that the government does not have an “ideological obsession” that prevents it from resorting to the private sector when it sees fit, or from “downsizing” the public sector.

At the end of the day in the Beja region, as part of the Open Health initiative, the minister was confronted by the words of the leaders of the SDP and the Left Bloc about the case of a pregnant woman who was transferred from the hospital on Sunday. Santa Maria in a private maternity hospital.

Luis Montenegro of the SDP accused the government of having a “statist and centralist vision” on how to run the SNS despite being “closer” to what his party advocates, while Mariana Mortagua urged the minister to “decide whether it will next.” Luis Montenegro” or “if you are near SNS”.

“We don’t have an ideological obsession that keeps us from resorting to the private sector when appropriate, and we also don’t have an ideological obsession to shrink or shrink the public sector, and we recognize the importance that social media has had throughout these decades.” shot Manuel. Pizarro at the Hospital de Beja, where he summed up the day spent in the area as part of the Open Health Initiative.

To contextualize the statement, Pizarro stressed that he is “on the side of the people” and that he only intends to “ensure that Portugal continues to be a great country for pregnant women” and protect the health of expectant mothers, according to SNS. guaranteed in these almost 50 years of democracy.

“To do this, we must strengthen the SNS government services. Actually, that’s what we do in Santa Maria. Childbirth in the country, ”the official emphasized.

In response also to a question about the intention announced by the Order of Physicians to send a specialty college to find out if the safety conditions in the Santa Maria hospital’s obstetrics are guaranteed, the minister suggested that “all contributions from the various institutions are well welcomed.”

Finally, Manuel Pizarro suggested that he is “confident” that this summer in obstetric services will be calmer than in 2022.

“You have two regions [Lisboa e Vale do Tejo e Algarve] are working with some kind of rotation regime of some maternity hospitals, but the truth is that since the introduction of this model, at the end of 2022, everything has been running smoothly,” he concluded.