BU calls on the PS to admit the mistakes of the absolute majority and “present solutions to the country”

The BE coordinator believes today that the PS must “acknowledge what went wrong during the absolute majority” and “present solutions to the country,” emphasizing that it is these proposals that “will determine the future” after the legislative ones.

Speaking to journalists in front of the Amadora Sintra Hospital, where he met with a group of maternal and child health workers who had signed an open letter “on the degradation of health services” in Lisbon and the Tagus Valley region, Mariana Mortagua was asked if it was possible, given the election of Pedro Nuno Santos, Secretary General of the Socialist Party, to reach an understanding among the left after the legislative elections.

In response, the BE co-ordinator said she had been waiting “to see the PS program in relation to the National Health Service (SNS)”, saying it was “indisputable and undeniable” that the vast majority of socialists had chosen “a path in health that has been degrading services.”

“The country cannot live with emergencies that come in rotation and with an NHS that is based on the illegal overtime of professionals who give their lives. Solutions need to be found and we hope this campaign period will bring clarification and presentation. conclusions,” he said.

According to Mariana Mortagua, “this clarification is important and PS must make it.”

“You have to admit what went wrong during the absolute majority and you have to present solutions to the country because it is these decisions that will determine the future from March 10,” he said.

Asked if she sees Pedro Nuno Santos being willing to present these solutions, given his recent statements, the BE coordinator responded that “to find solutions, it is necessary for all parties to put proposals on the table.”

“The left needs to mobilize and present solutions to the country. It’s the responsibility of the left to say how we solve the problem of social media,” he said.

On the BE side, he continued, “for years” the party had been proposing solutions and “the country knew about them”, such as “recognition of professionals, internalization of diagnostics, serious investment in the National Health System.”

“Anyone who thinks we’re talking about money is mistaken. Because every time we don’t invest in the NHS, in five years we’ll be spending twice as much on workers, hiring private services and diagnostics, transporting users,” he said. .

Regarding the meeting with the specialists who signed the open letter, Mariana Mortagua said that the Amadora Sintra hospital “has serious shortcomings in the field of emergency care, especially in pediatrics and obstetrics”, and that the specialists conveyed to her “concerns about users”, namely : conditions of queues, closure of services or transport of emergency patients.

Mariana Mortagua believes that the situation in hospitals such as Amadora Sintra is “unsustainable” and is the “SNS conclusion”, adding that the agreement reached between the government and doctors’ unions “does not resolve this situation”.

The BE coordinator emphasized that in the current period the parties need to “say what they see in relation to social networks,” ironically that she hopes that the Minister of Health will not act “like the Minister of Education and talk into the campaign, so that we can still solve problems that have worsened under the absolute majority.”

Speaking to reporters, pediatrician Tanya Russo, one of the open letter’s signatories who was also a BE candidate in the last local elections, said the letter in question was a “warning cry” given by professionals to “care intervention which is urgent” given , that we are witnessing an “unprecedented degradation of healthcare” in the field of maternal and child health.

“The announced emergency reorganization plan contains very little planning and reorganization elements,” he criticized.