The Prime Minister proposed this Thursday to the President of the Republic to appoint Ricardo Mestre as Secretary of State for Health and Margarida Tavares as Secretary of State for Health Promotion.
This proposal for nomination was published on the official website of the President of the Republic on the Internet.
“The President of the Republic has accepted the proposal of the Prime Minister to appoint three new Secretaries of State, to whom he will be sworn in on Friday at 7:30 pm at the Belém Palace,” the note said.
Like Marta Temido’s previous team, the new health minister Manuel Pizarro will also have two secretaries of state with him, replacing PS deputies António Lacerda Sales and Fatima Fonseca.
Ricardo Mestre, who was born in Serpe, has been Deputy Director General of the General Directorate of Health since June this year, having received a degree in economics in 2001 from the Higher Institute of Economics and Education of the University of Lisbon.
According to the curriculum note published by the government, Ricardo Mestre is a specialist in hospital management and has a postgraduate degree in health care management.
Among other things, he was a project manager at the Council of Public Finance for Health and Public Sector Business from March 2021 to June 2022, and an executive member of the governing board of the Directorate General of the Health System (ACSS). between March 2016 and March 2021.
Margarida Tavares from Vale de Cambra is the Coordinator of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Unit at the Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São Soão (CHUSJ).
A Diploma in Medicine from the University of Porto and a Master of Public Health degree from the Pasteur Institute Public School in Paris, Margarida Tavares is a Chartered Assistant in Infectious Diseases at the CHUSJ Infectious Diseases Service.
Member of the National Board of Public Health since 2020, she is also Director of the Priority Program for Sexually Transmitted Infections and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection since 2021.
Lecturer and director of the study group in infectious disease control of the Master of Public Health at the University of Porto from 2018 to 2022 and researcher at the Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto are other roles noted by the head in the Margarida curriculum. Tavares.
The new Minister of Health, Manuel Pizarro, a physician specializing in internal medicine, was sworn in last Saturday, replacing Marta Temido, who resigned from her duties on August 30.
After being sworn in as President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the former Socialist MEP suggested that he would face a “very difficult task” and that he would face it “with great determination, with a great desire to work for the good of the health of the Portuguese and for the National Health Service “.
When asked if he was satisfied with the new SNS Statute, Manuel Pizarro replied: “If I did not feel comfortable, I would not be able to take this post today.”
The outgoing Treasury team, former Minister Marta Temido and former Secretaries of State António Lacerda Sales and Fatima Fonseca, resumed their duties as PS deputies in the Assembly of the Republic on Wednesday.
With this resumption of the powers of the three former rulers, deputies Alexandra Tavares Moura, Claudia Avelar Santos and Rosa Isabel Cruz are leaving the PS bench.
In the last legislative elections, Marta Temido and Lacerda Sales topped the PS list respectively in the constituencies of Coimbra and Leiria. Fatima Fonseca was elected by the Lisbon circle in 16th place.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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