Anaesthesiologist Vitor Almeida will be the next president of the National Institute of Emergency Medicine (INEM), replacing Luís Meira, who resigned on Monday following a public confrontation with Health Minister Ana Paula Martins. The 58-year-old doctor, who previously worked at INEM and was a delegate of the Independent Doctors’ Union, was seen as a perennial candidate to lead the institute. He had already applied for the job four times and last year he was one of those chosen by CRESAP (the Commission for the Recruitment and Selection of Public Administration Employees) for the job, but the previous government decided to keep Luís Meira. He currently works at the San Teotonio Hospital in Viseu, but already has experience of war and terrorism, accompanying the PPR missions in Iraq and Israel. “We know his qualities as a doctor, but not as a manager. Let’s hope he is willing to talk,” he said. CM Rui Lazaro, President of the Union of Pre-Hospital Emergency Physicians.