The expansion of cancer screening programs to include lung, prostate and stomach cancer was included this Friday in the State Budget 2024 (OE2024) through a proposal to amend the PS.
The Socialist proposal was approved by votes of all parties except BE, which abstained on the second day of voting on budget amendment proposals in the Committee on Budget and Finance (COF).
According to the proposal, the government will develop necessary measures over the next year to “improve” the National Cancer Registry (RON), considering it “a fundamental means of integrating information that needs to be relevant and effective to respond to the pillars of the cancer strategy.”
At the same time, “necessary steps will also be taken to promote increased adherence and coverage of screening programs for breast, cervical, and colon and rectal cancer.”
The proposal also calls for “standardizing invitation procedures” for cancer screenings, “focusing the screening process on citizens,” and “expanding the scope of these procedures to include cancer screening for lung, prostate and stomach cancer.”
Screening is the process of early diagnosis in people who do not have symptoms and, according to the National Health Service (SNS), it aims to “reduce mortality through earlier diagnosis, and in some cases also the number of new cancer cases (cancer incidence) ” )”.
The budget also included a proposal from Livre, approved unanimously, to create a working group in 2024 to revise the list of chronic diseases that “according to medical criteria require frequent consultations, examinations and treatment.” and may represent a potential cause of early disability as well as a significant reduction in life expectancy.”
The working group is responsible for the status of chronic disease, as well as for the creation of documentary models that “depending on the type of chronic disease, grant the patient the right to priority care or allow mandatory and priority access to certain institutions.”
Members of the Council of Ministers also unanimously approved Livre’s proposal, which calls for a national retinal displacement campaign to take place next year.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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