This Wednesday, the Minister of Health criticized the lack of a strategic plan to eliminate the regional health departments (RHA) and said that many of them live on twelfths transferred every month in order to be able to pay salaries.
“Many ARS responsibilities no longer exist in the state budget and live on the twelfths that we transfer every month to be able to pay salaries,” said Ana Paula Martins, who is being heard today in the parliamentary health committee on various issues. .
Responding to a question from MPs, the minister insisted there was “no strategic plan” for the die-offs, but said they would effectively be stopped following an assessment of responsibility, which would ultimately shift to other organisations.
He gave the example of the National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge (INSA): “It will receive assignments as a public health laboratory for epidemiological surveillance, but it is necessary to know whether it has the conditions in terms of human and budgetary resources to receive these assignments.”
She also said she was surprised by the resignation of Fernando Araujo from the Executive Directorate (DE) of the National Health Service (SNS), and stressed that “the only issue on which there could and may be disagreement is the responsibilities of the DE.”
Ana Paula Martins criticized the diploma for the liquidation of the ARS, which was returned by the President of the Republic, considering that “it had many imperfections in terms of powers and powers” and noted that “there are a thousand people [colaboradores da Administração Pública] who at this moment do not know what will happen to them.”
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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