More than 100 health workers signed a manifesto in support of the AD, saying the right-wing coalition led by Luis Montenegro presented an electoral program “best suited to correct the serious current situation” in the SNA.
“By announcing the proposals of the AD (Electoral Program – Democratic Alliance (ad2024.pt)) coalition, we express our support for this program, which, in our opinion, is the best way to correct the current serious situation and offer true universal health care to the entire population,” the statement reads. manifesto sent to the Lusa agency.
Among other medical professionals of the National Health Service (SNS), the document was signed by doctors Joao Queiroz e Melo, Alexandre Valentim Lourenço, Fernando Coelho Rosa, Maria José Cartacho Rebocho, António Amorim, Victor Manuel Machado Gil, Mario Jorge Amorim and Ruy. Anjos.
The list of subscribers also includes radiological technician Vasco Bettencourt, nurse Ana Albuquerque, doctors Pedro Bastos, Hélder Monteiro, Miguel Mendes, Emanuel Vigia and Miguel Souza Uva, as well as the director of the Center for Cardiac Surgery of the University of Coimbra, Manuel Antunes.
The signatories of the manifesto state that “they are, or have been, health care providers in the National Health System and are independent of political parties” and “believe that the Portuguese government has been responsible for the serious deterioration of this situation in recent years.” care that is clear to the eyes of the population, and that patients suffer serious consequences as a result of outdated and ideological management.”
“Legislative elections are a great opportunity to put an end to this cycle of mediocrity and degradation,” they emphasize.
Subscribers are also calling for a restructuring of the SNS agreed with “the remaining service providers, social and private, in the national health system.”
More than 10.8 million Portuguese are called to vote on Sunday to elect 230 members of the Assembly of the Republic.
18 political forces, 15 parties and three coalitions are competing in these elections.