PSD President Luis Montenegro asked on Tuesday for an “uncomplicated vision” in the health sector “where ideology has no predominance” during a visit to the Centro Hospitalar e Universitário do Algarve (CHUA) in Faro.
“Until we, as a country, overcome these complexes, we will not be able to create a public health service that can use the installed capacities and human resources of the three sectors. [público, social e privado]”, defended the leader of the largest opposition party.
At the end of a visit to the Faro Hospital, one of the main units of CHUA, and during the second of four days of initiatives dedicated to this sector, Luis Montenegro once again defended “understanding between sectors” and “complementarity” between public sectors. , social and private.
“Until we, as a country, overcome these complexes, we will not be able to create a public health service that can use the installed capacities and human resources of the three sectors. [público, social e privado]”, defended the leader of the largest opposition party.
At the end of a visit to the Faro Hospital, one of the main units of CHUA, and during the second of four days of initiatives dedicated to this sector, Luis Montenegro once again defended “understanding between sectors” and “complementarity” between public sectors. , social and private.
The SDP chairman asked the government to “assume” rather than “be ashamed” or “hide from reality” the contracts that the health authorities already have with the social sector and the private sector.
“The government, I know it doesn’t like to admit it, even speaks a little embarrassed, but what I know and what I see every day, […] is that these divisions of the National Health Service today already have contracts for the provision of services, namely with social organizations and with organizations of the private sector,” Montenegro said, calling on the socialist executive power “to assume, not to be ashamed, not to hide from reality.”
The social democratic leader insisted that this is already the “reality” of the National Health System (SNS), and called for “a true, bold, consistent, consistent policy that can be the optimization of public resources, including financial ones.”
Luis Montenegro stated that he confirmed that human resources (doctors, nurses and support staff) are currently the main concern in the SNS and said that this public service is “currently going through periods of severe storm” across the country and ” in the Algarve shows an elevated level.”
The Social Democrat defended the development of “another public policy”, citing examples of housing and education to ensure “the quality of life and well-being of medical workers”, an issue he considered “essential for them to feel attractive”. to be able to provide services in such regions.”
“We propose, for example, on the issue of family doctors, we have more than 1.7 million Portuguese without a family doctor, what exactly can be a direct contract with social and private organizations in the context of family health, as is already happening. in some municipalities of the country,” Montenegro said, adding that this is one of the PSD proposals that will be discussed on Thursday in the Assembly of the Republic.
On Tuesday, the PSD president continued his health agenda in Faro in the morning and in Trofa in the afternoon, culminating on Thursday with a parliamentary agenda for the sector, in which the party will vote on five recommendations to the government with more urgent proposals such as strengthening the social network , the total number of family doctors, access to medicines and continuous and palliative care, as well as the reduction of queues for operations, appointments and tests.
When asked if he was already able to appreciate the role of SNS CEO, Fernando Araujo, Montenegro replied that he was not, but it was not only him.
“The government can’t either, because it still hasn’t settled the executive leadership of the SNA,” he said.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal

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