This Monday, Chega challenged the right-wing parties, namely PSD and IL, to commit to “saving health” in Portugal, with one of the goals being the granting of a general practitioner to all Portuguese by 2030.
Speaking at a press conference in Funchal, Chega President André Ventura said Portugal was “at one of the worst stages ever in terms of the quality of health services and the response to citizens”.
André Ventura thus launched the challenge “for the whole non-socialist space”, especially for PSD and IL, the challenge to make a “commitment to saving health in Portugal”, pointing out that it is not about “rescuing the SNS [Serviço Nacional de Saúde] or the private sector”, but the field of health as a whole.
The president of Chega stressed that the objectives of this convergence to the right are that by 2030 all Portuguese have a general practitioner, waiting times for consultations and operations are reduced to 1/3 and that more than 50% of doctors are trained in medicine.
According to André Ventura, this commitment also includes the development of a national strategy for the production and reserve of medicines to compensate for the shortage.
In addition, he said there should be “capacity to call on the private person when the waiting time” in the public service exceeds the times provided for by law, arguing that those waiting for consultations or operations just want an answer .
“We have not always got it right when we oppose the government on health issues. On the part of the right, there has been an almost compulsive obsession with demonizing what is public and valuing what is private. side of the socialist space and the Government, the demonization of what is private or social and only the protection of what is public.” considered.
“We have all been wrong about what health policy in Portugal should be. The right way is to know how to value the national health service and to know that the private sector and the social sector are fundamental to achieve the complementarity that we need if we put citizens first”, André Ventura reinforces.
Source: DN
