This Sunday, the PS general secretary said he was “deeply embarrassed” by the “lack of empathy” and the way Chegi President André Ventura treated the mother of Portuguese-Brazilian twins at parliamentary hearings.
“I was very ashamed as an MP for witnessing how Chega and Andre Ventura treated a woman who did what any mother in Portugal would do to protect her children,” Pedro Nuno Santos said on the sidelines greetings between the presidents of Portugal. the chambers of Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia on the Luis I Bridge connecting the two cities, in honor of São João.
The socialist who will spend the night in São João in Vila Nova de Gaia at the invitation of the mayor, socialist Eduardo Vitor Rodrigues, suggested that Chega represents everything he wants to fight in Portuguese society, adding that Andre Ventura’s position at the hearing For the mothers of the children, this was “the maximum degradation of parliament.”
“The leader of Chegi revealed a real and total human insensitivity towards others, a complete lack of empathy,” he emphasized.
Pedro Nuno Santos said he was “pretty sure” that the majority of voters who voted for Chegu in the March legislative elections were embarrassed by how “the politician they voted for treated his mother in person.”
The mother of the twins told the commission of inquiry on Friday that she had never met or spoken personally with the President of the Republic or her son, and indicated that she was lying when she spoke of a network of influence that favored children.
“I have never personally met or approached the President of the Republic or his son Dr. Nuno Rebel de Souza,” said Daniela Martins.
Before this hearing, the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the case of the twins treated at the Santa Maria Hospital once again demanded the presence of the son of the President of the Republic, declaring that his refusal to appear “constitutes a crime of insubordination.”
We are talking about the treatment in the hospital of two Portuguese-Brazilian children who received the drug Zolgensma. Costing two million euros per person, the drug aims to control the spread of spinal muscular atrophy, a neurodegenerative disease.
The case is still being investigated by the General Prosecutor’s Office, but the General Inspectorate of Health has already concluded that these children’s access to neuropediatric consultation was illegal.
Santa Maria Hospital’s internal audit also concluded that the state Department of Health’s first appointment at the hospital was the only exception to compliance in this case.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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