Health Minister Ana Paula Martins said this Friday that she believed the summer plan for the National Health Service (SNS) was “already programmed” and was “surprised” because she had expected to work on a winter plan.
“I was surprised, mainly because we imagined, which I think is natural, that it (the summer plan) was already planned since we are just on the cusp of summer. In fact, I actually expected that we would already be working on a winter plan, a plan that needs to be prepared at least four to five months in advance,” the minister said, commenting on the information that the resigned executive director of the SNS refused prepare this plan.
The newspaper Público reported this Friday that the Minister of Health asked Fernando Araújo to provide the summer plan for the activities of SNS, but the resigning executive director refused.
According to the newspaper, Fernando Araujo was surprised by the request because he was not aware of the guardianship plans, but the government hoped the plan would move forward and assured that it would ensure that the summer “went normally.”
In Porto, during a visit to the operating room of the Santo António hospital, where she went to learn about a project combining robotic surgery and artificial intelligence, Ana Paula Martins said that she would be a “task force” that was “okay, assigned.”
“We have a ‘task force’, which is appointed on a rotating basis, and which, since we took office, has been working on the Emergency and Emergency Plan, which will soon be presented by the government. Naturally, this so-called seasonal plan will also be carried out with this same group of leaders, which includes people from different professions and, above all, people from different regions of the country,” he said.
When faced with a question from journalists about what specific plan was requested from the SNS Executive Directorate (DE-SNS), Ana Paula Martins did not fully clarify the responsibilities of each of the structures associated with the SNS and the health sector, but he said that he “expected” that DE-SNS will guarantee the connectivity of this entire network.
“Seasonal public health plans are provided by DGS. [Dirção-Geral da Saúde], due to heat waves and cold waves, and they are always carried out by the DHS and will continue to do so (…). But to summarize the long decree-law [dos estatutos da DE-SNS] With many skills and countless responsibilities, it is clear that creating a mesh network, ULS network [Unidades Locais de Saúde] which bring together hospital centers and so-called health centers, the responsibility for ensuring that this entire network is brought together lies with the chief executive and his team,” said a government official.
And he added: “If we have higher pressure situations at certain times of the year, in certain regions of the country and in certain specialties, as we know in obstetrics, that’s what DE-SNS does, and therefore that’s the expectation.”
Before heading to the Centro Materno-Infantil do Norte (CMIN), a structure that is also part of the ULS Santo Antonio, Ana Paula Martins was also asked who would be Fernando Araujo’s successor at DE-SNS, but she did not answer.
Regarding the visit to the KMIN, which was not officially planned, the minister said that it would serve to meet “the leaders of the North and understand (…) and understand the reaction that should be given to citizens.”
Earlier, in the information provided to journalists on the sidelines, it was mentioned that the meeting would bring together responsible persons from the north of the sphere of motherhood and childhood to prepare a summer plan.
In Santo Antonio, throughout her visit, Ana Paula Martins was accompanied by the President of the Board of Directors of ULS Santo Antonio, Paulo Barbosa, and the Director of the Surgical Department of this hospital, Eurico Castro Alves, who is also President of the Regional Office of the Northern Medical Association, under the leadership of Clinical Director Antonio Barros and Director of CMIN Caldas Afonso.
Ana Paula Martins’ visit to the emergency obstetrics department of the São João hospital, also in Porto, is scheduled for Sunday.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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