Former Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva will be heard by a parliamentary commission investigating the Portuguese-Brazilian twins case on October 8, the commission’s president told the Lusa news agency on Wednesday.
The hearing of the former President of the Assembly of the Republic will begin at 2:00 p.m. and will take place on the same day as the hearing of the President of the National Agency for Medicines and Health Products (Infarmed), Rui Santos Ivo, who will be heard later.
Rui Paulo Sousa also announced that former Health Minister Manuel Pizarro will be heard on the same day as his predecessor, current PS MEP Marta Temido, on September 27.
The hearing of the case of former Justice Minister Francisca Van Dunem will take place on October 11.
The hearing of former Secretary of State António Lacerda Sales will take place on September 20. Carla Silva asked to be heard behind closed doors, which will be assessed by the committee representatives at the commission meeting and the coordinators last week.
On October 4, the cases of Tiago Jorge Carvalho Gonçalves, former chief of staff of Lacerda Sales, will be heard.
Three days before, on October 1, a hearing was scheduled for the case of Mario Pinto, former health adviser to the President of the Republic.
The parliamentary commission investigating the case of the Portuguese-Brazilian twins being treated at the Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon will resume work after the parliamentary recess on September 13.
On this day, the former Undersecretary of State for Health, Djamilia Madeira, will be heard, on a day when the former Portuguese consul in São Paulo and current ambassador to Beijing, Paulo Jorge Nascimento, are also scheduled to be heard.
The case in point is the hospital treatment of two Portuguese-Brazilian children who received the drug Zolgensma, a two-million-euro drug designed to control the spread of spinal muscular atrophy, a neurodegenerative disease.
The case is still under investigation by the Attorney General’s Office, but the General Inspectorate of Health has already concluded that these children’s access to neuropaediatric consultation was illegal.
An internal audit of Santa Maria Hospital also concluded that the state Department of Health’s initial hospital admissions schedule was the only exception to compliance in this case.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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