Chega submitted a potential access request for data on the case of Matilde, the first child in Portugal to be treated with the drug Zolgensma for spinal muscular atrophy.
As NOW reports, the request has already been sent to the President of the Assembly of the Republic. In the order, to which NOW had access, Aguiar-Branco believes that, according to the constitution and the data protection law, priority should be given to maintaining confidentiality. Moreover, given that the Matilda case falls outside the scope of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the Twins (CPI), he asks Chega to provide additional justification.
André Ventura’s party also demanded that the former chief of staff of the Minister of Health be heard, as well as Patricia Melo e Castro, who was an adviser to the Prime Minister’s Office at the time of the incident. She was the one who signed the letter to the Ministry of Health, which described the trial of the twin sisters and other trials, which the civil house sent to the Prime Minister’s Office.