PSD accuses PS of creating havoc on social media and defends engagement with the private and social sectors.

This Wednesday, PSD blamed the PS leadership of recent years for causing a situation of chaos in the SNS and defended a “new strategy” that integrates the public sector with the private and social sectors.

This position was defended by Deputy Rui Cristina in a political declaration in the Assembly of the Republic, in which he noted the current news of “overcrowding in emergency services, with patients waiting 11 and 14 hours, many of them abandoned and dumped on stretchers.” in the corridors, if not on the hospital floor.”

The PSD MP said that “from the north to the south of the country there are more and more SNS hospitals that are in chaos, with exhausted specialists, collapsing services and desperate patients”, citing as examples “hospitals in Santa Maria, Faro, Penafiel, Évora , Amadora Sintra, Almada, Setubal, Barreiro Montijo, Portimão, Loures, San Francisco Xavier and many others.”

“The PS has failed, the National Health Service (NHS) needs urgent help, it needs a new strategy, and the NHS is defending itself today. [quarta-feira] – as he defended 43 years ago – the SNS, which unites the public sector with the private and social sectors, refusing nationalization and putting people first”, defended the social democrat, believing that “the Portuguese certainly know how to transform their despair into strength alternatives to the current socialist mismanagement”.

In response to this speech, Deputy PS Luis Soares referred to the “SDP years” between 2011 and 2015, stating that the leadership of the SNA during this period “is still [quarta-feira] has consequences” and that his party is “definitely restoring trust with healthcare workers”.

“Over the past seven years, we have been responsible for restoring all the cuts made and presented the largest budget for SNS in 2023,” the socialist said.

Rui Cristina, in contrast, argued that “the chaos that SNS finds itself in is the result of many years of bad government policies and the result of a lack of investment” by the PS, with government budgets “that never get executed”. “in full for this sector.

“This year is no exception. Until October, only 140 million euros were executed, despite the fact that 589 million euros were provided for this year. That is, for the first ten months of this 2022 – only 23.8% of what was promised. Faced with this, what do the majority do? PS refuses to acknowledge the failure of seven years of bad health decisions,” he criticized.

The Social Democrat added that “no one has ever done so much for the private health sector in Portugal as PS and Prime Minister António Costa”.

Rui Cristina recalled that in 1979 the PSD proposed “creating a mixed and inclusive National Health Service” that would cover all organizations providing health care – the then PPD voted against the PS bill, which in the same year created the “National Health Service (NHS)” by which the State ensures the right to health in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution.”