The PKP secretary-general said on Tuesday that the commission of inquiry proposed by Chega into the case of the Portuguese-Brazilian twins was “suppressing the matter”, even as he called it a “disgrace” that the treatment cost four million euros.
“I think it’s [proposta de comissão de inquérito] It’s just a way to try to set the agenda and go deeper into the topic,” Paulo Raimundo told reporters in Porto.
At the end of a meeting with the Union of Manufacturing, Energy and Environmental Workers of the North, in response to a question about the commission of inquiry proposed by Chega, the Communist leader said that he hoped that the party led by André Ventura would be “all talk about the fight against corruption” accompany the PKP in its proposal to create a commission to investigate the “economic crime that was the privatization of ANA.”
President Chegi announced on Tuesday that he would impose the creation of a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the case of Portuguese-Brazilian twins being treated at Santa Maria Hospital if an agreement was not reached with the PSD by Friday.
“If this agreement is not reached by the end of the week, Chega will ask for a potential parliamentary commission of inquiry by Friday. [obrigatória] in the case of the twins, which will be presented in the next few days in the Assembly of the Republic,” said Andre Ventura, speaking to reporters in parliament after the panel meeting.
Recalling that investigations into the twins’ case are ongoing and clarifications must be provided, Paulo Raimundo stressed that there is a “fundamental problem that does not seem to be taken into account in the discussion”, namely that the drugs cost four million euros.
“We are talking about medicines worth four million euros, this is the central element that should outrage us all,” he emphasized.
In the findings of the inspection report published on Thursday, the Inspectorate General of Medical Activities (IGAS) said “the requirements of legality were not met in the access of two children to a neuropediatric consultation” because the consultation schedule was not met. comply with the regulation governing user access to the National Health Service.
IGAS also concluded that the provision of medical care to children was carried out “without any facts worthy of any blame.”
Former Secretary of State Antonio Lacerda Sales, according to a controversial report, criticized IGAS for giving less weight to his word than to that of his private secretary, who contacted Santa Maria Hospital to schedule the twins’ admission.
The case of two twins living in Brazil who acquired Portuguese nationality and received Zolgensma in Portugal in 2020, worth a total of four million euros, was published by TVI in November and is still being investigated by the Public. Prosecutor’s Office – General Republic of the Republic (GGR).
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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