PS leader Manuel Pizarro said this Saturday that right-wing criticism of the SNS is aimed at overthrowing it and believes that the only way to save it is a victory for the Socialists in the legislature.
Speaking at the 24th National Congress of the PS in Lisbon, Manuel Pizarro said that the PS does not hide, belittle or discount the “difficulties” of the National Health Service (SNS), but also “does not fuel a campaign of ongoing denigration of one of the most important achievements of the Portuguese democratic system.
The Minister of Health also emphasized that on a day like today, the SNS provides “more than 17 thousand emergency services and more than 3,800 activations of hospital emergency services,” emphasizing that “this cannot be reduced to existing problems and that it is necessary.” must be “faced with courage and determination.”
“Let’s not kid ourselves: on the right side of our political spectrum, criticism of SNS is aimed at destroying SNS. There is no alternative proposal for organization, only curse, curse, curse,” he criticized.
Manuel Pizarro emphasized that Portugal turns 50 years old on April 25, “having the opportunity to be proud of international comparisons in the field of health”, and stressed that the country has reached this moment “on the shoulders of giants, perhaps the greatest of which is the inspirational Portuguese, great socialist and great citizen named António Arnaut” who founded SNS.
“Let’s remember that day in 1979 when the Assembly of the Republic voted to create the SNA. There were those who voted against it, and those who voted against it were the SDP and the SDS, who to this day have not stopped fighting this idea of a public, universal and universal social network,” he said.
According to Pizarro, the “only guarantee” that the SNA will continue to exist and that everything necessary will be done “to reform it and prepare it for the remaining years of the 21st century is a victory for the PS in these elections.”
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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