Bloco de Esquerda (BE) wants the government to invest in building major emergencies to “roll up” medical and surgical emergencies and regrets that it is “increasingly contracting with private individuals,” coordinator Katarina Martins said this Sunday.
“We were saying that the National Health Service (SNS) needs more specialists and specialists with contracts that fix them so that they are not constantly running. And there is an urgent measure that BE has been proposing for years (… ) which is the creation of major emergencies along with medico-surgical emergencies. This made it possible to deploy more complex emergency conditions,” said Katarina Martins.
The coordinator of Bloco de Esquerda believes that the creation of this urgent model “was carried out in a limited way”, stressing that “it should be generalized”, especially in times like the current one, when there are more respiratory diseases.
In Povoa de Varzim (District of Porto), where she spoke to reporters after visiting the Estela Fair, Catarina Martins stressed that there are “not enough elementary emergencies” in Portugal, a model that, she said, “in many parts of the country not even does not exist”.
“Of course there is no response on social media,” he said.
Katarina Martins said that “today’s dawn was again seen in the emergency room, [situações de] more than 10 hours waiting for emergency care” and gave examples of cases in the hospital da Povoa de Varzim or Santa Maria in Lisbon.
Answering a question about transferring funds from healthcare to private ones, the bloc leader said that “every year more money is spent on private ones, and every year people receive less medical care.”
“It must mean something,” he stressed, reiterating that “it is necessary to hire professionals for SNS and create conditions for SNS to accept users.”
Asked if she was surprised by the statements of the Minister of Health, Manuel Pizarro, who, in an interview with Jornal de Notícias and TSF, said that the country needs to train more doctors and that those who work in the SNS should be better paid, Katarina Martins confirmed some blocker flags in the area health.
“I’m not surprised. What surprises me is that the government is doing nothing,” he said.
The BE coordinator said that “it is necessary to provide professionals with a decent salary in order to devote themselves exclusively to SNS with career growth and working conditions.”
“In Portugal, the head of the SNS service can simultaneously work in a private hospital that competes with a public hospital. Do we think that this is normal? They are given working conditions so that they can devote themselves to SNS,” he said. concluded.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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