The leader of the Bloco de Esquerda (BE) warned this Sunday about the problem of the lack of childcare centers in the country, with “only 50% of the coverage”, after stating that the solution would be the integration of the service into the education system .
“We are about to start a new school year, a new year in which parents are looking for a place to leave their children and cannot find it,” said Mariana Mortágua in Alcorriol, during the annual sardinhada organized by the blocking council of Torres Novas (Santarém), have noted that “in Portugal, the childcare coverage rate is 50%” and that “affects thousands of families”.
The BE coordinator, announcing an “interpellation to the government for next week to discuss the issue of daycare centers”, stressed that this is “a serious problem in a country that is struggling with birth problems and where families are under great pressure. because of the problem of house prices and essential goods”, after stating that “it is different and quite possible”.
In this sense, and taking into account that “free nurseries”, a measure he praised, “do not reach everyone who needs them”, BE defends that on the one hand childcare centers “should be part of the education system” and that, on the other hand, the government must allow the municipal councils to make an agreement with the social security system so that they can have their own nurseries”.
121 people had registered for the annual lunch of the Bloco de Esquerda de Torres Novas, which marks its eighth edition. house prices or the lack of GPs.
In the case of housing, the BE leader said that “the problem (…) cannot be solved by increasing effort rates alone” and that it will only happen “when banks are forced to renegotiate housing loans and lower interest rates that people are currently being charged”.
On the health side, Mariana Mortágua said that the problem of the lack of doctors in Torres Novas is “structural” and “transversal” for the whole country and that it is happening because the government “has not made sure that there is a way to doctors attract the places where it’s harder to be.”
For the BE leader “there is a way to solve the problem”, recalling that “doctors have been saying this for a long time”.
“It is to create attractive careers for doctors to establish themselves in the National Health Service (SNS)” so that we have an SNS with organizational capacity across the territory, and not as we have now. The government must listen to the professionals,” he concludes.
Source: DN
