Enough PSD and IL issues to make a ‘health save’ commitment in Portugal

This Monday, Chega called on the right-wing parties, namely the PSD and IL, to commit to “saving health” in Portugal, highlighting as one of the goals the provision of a family doctor to all Portuguese by 2030.

At a press conference in Funchal, Chega President Andre Ventura said that Portugal is “in one of the worst stages in terms of the quality of medical services and the response of citizens.”

Thus, André Ventura challenged “the entire non-socialist space”, especially the PSD and IL, to make a “commitment to save health in Portugal”, pointing out that it is not about “saving social media”. [Serviço Nacional de Saúde] or the private sector”, but also the health sector in general.

President Chega stressed that the goals of this right-wing rapprochement are that by 2030 all Portuguese have a family doctor, waiting times for consultations and surgeries are reduced by 1/3, and more than 50% of doctors are trained. in medicine.

That commitment also includes developing a national drug production and reserve strategy to make up for the shortage, Andre Ventura said.

In addition, he said it should be “possible to resort to private when the waiting time” in the public service exceeds the legal time, arguing that those who are waiting for consultations or operations are eager to get a response.

“We didn’t always have a good time when we opposed the government in terms of health. There has been an almost obsessive obsession on the part of the Right to demonize what is public and value what is private. On the part of the socialist space and the Government, the demonization of the private or public and only the protection of the public, ”he believed.

“We were all wrong about what health policy should be in Portugal. The right path is to know how to value the National Health Service and to know that the private and social sectors are fundamental to achieve the complementarity we need if we are citizens first,” Andre Ventura underscored.

This Monday, PSD chairman Luis Montenegro expressed the party’s intention to place the Portuguese healthcare system in the top ten in the world by 2040, making a “radical break with the statist and centralist vision” of the PS government.

At a press conference at the SDP’s national headquarters, on the day he turns one year as party leader, Luis Montenegro outlined a document that the SDP called “The Mobilization Agenda 2030-2040”, including five strategic axes and 25 structural proposals to change this sector in Portugal.

Liberal Initiative leader Rui Rocha also addressed the issue on Monday, lambasting Health Minister Manuel Pizarro for having “surprisingly flippantly” dealt with difficulties on social media, considering it’s “proof” that the service is down. properly.

Rui Rocha recalled that in the coming days, the party will introduce a basic health law that will seek to “open the system” and put “users at the center of the solution.”