The PS will propose urgent parliamentary hearings of the health minister and the executive director of the SNS to provide clarifications about the announced resignation of Fernando Araujo and his team, an official Socialist source told Luse on Tuesday.
According to the same source, the request for a hearing by the Health Committee will be submitted to Parliament on Wednesday.
The aim of the PS in these hearings, which will be requested as a matter of urgency, is for Ana Paula Martins and Fernando Araujo to explain the resignation announced on Tuesday of the chief executive of the National Health Service and his team.
The chief executive of the National Health Service announced on Tuesday that he and his team will hand in their resignation to the health secretary, saying he does not want to be an obstacle to the government’s policies and measures it deems necessary. .
“Respecting the principle of institutional loyalty, I will submit to the Minister of Health, together with the team I lead, my request to resign from my position as chief executive of the National Health Service,” Fernando Araujo said in a statement.
According to Fernando Araujo, this “difficult decision” will allow the new guardianship body “to implement the policies and measures it deems necessary with the necessary speed, without allowing the current executive leadership (DE-SNS) to be considered an obstacle to its implementation.” .
“DE-SNS is a technical body, a public institution of the state, which must stand above political issues or party programs and which implements public policies defined by the government,” the statement, signed by Fernando Araujo, also emphasizes.
The Executive Directorate began its activities on January 1, 2023, in accordance with the new Regulations of the National Health Service (NHS), proposed by then Minister Marta Temido, with the aim of coordinating the response to assistance of all units of the SNS and modernizing its management.
According to Fernando Araujo, in the “first and only meeting” under the leadership of the new government, DE-SNS demonstrated the possibility of continuity of functions in order to complete the ongoing reform, but put itself “at the disposal of the new government team if it understood how to change the policies and face of the system “
“We have made it clear that we do not want legal compensation. Each member of the team has a previous professional life, four of us are in the SNS, one in the Ministry of Finance and the other in private activities, and that we did not intend to burden the public good under any circumstances,” he also assured the doctor.
Fernando Araujo also stated that he requested that the dismissal of the executive management take effect the day after the submission of the performance report required by the ministry, which, according to him, “was made known by email at the same time as its publication in the media.” . .
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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