The PS general secretary admitted this Thursday that the National Health Service (SNS) has problems, but said the solution to them cannot involve abandoning or abandoning it, “as the Democratic Alliance (AD) coalition wants to do.” .
“The answer cannot be to abandon SNS or abandon it, as AD and its potential partners want to do,” says Pedro Nuno Santos upon arrival at the Fábrica 2030 conference, organized by the online newspaper ECO, in Porto.
Believing that everyone recognizes that the SNS has problems, the Socialist leader stressed that despite this, the vast majority of Portuguese cannot imagine themselves in a country without the SNS.
He added: “When problems are pressing, when diseases are serious or when diseases are rare, it is the NHS that we turn to.”
Referring specifically to the AD, the socialist stressed that the proposals of this PSD/CDU/PPM coalition are worrying because “one of both”: either they say that they will spend more money on the private sector, or that they will withdraw money from the SNS to finance private medical business.
And this, he says, is a worrying need to protect the NHS, arguing that despite all its difficulties, it is now carrying out more operations, more consultations and producing more.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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