Health Minister Manuel Pizarro said in Beja on Monday that the government has no “ideological obsession” that prevents it from resorting to the private sector when it sees fit or from “downsizing” the public sector.
At the end of a day in the Beja district, as part of the Open Health initiative, the minister was confronted with words from PSD and Linksblok leaders about the case of a pregnant woman transferred from Hospital de Santa on Sunday Maria to a private maternity hospital.
Luís Montenegro, from the PSD, accused the government of having a “statistical and centralist vision” of the management of the SNS, despite being “closer” to what his party defends, while Mariana Mortágua urged the minister ” decide if it’s the next step.” to Luís Montenegro” or “when you sit next to the SNS”.
“We have no ideological obsession that prevents us from resorting to the private sector when appropriate, nor do we have an ideological obsession with reducing or downsizing the public sector and we recognize the importance that the SNS has played in recent decades. has had”threw Manuel Pizarro to the Hospital de Beja, where he took stock of the day spent in the district as part of the Open Health initiative.
To put the statement in context, Pizarro stressed that he is “on the side of the people” and that he only intends to “ensure that Portugal remains an excellent country in which to conceive” and the health of mothers-to-be “as the SNS has guaranteed in these almost 50 years of democracy”.
“To do this we need to strengthen the public services of the SNS. That is, in fact, what we are doing in Santa Maria. of births in the country”emphasized the governor.
Also questioned about the intention announced by the Ordem dos Médicos to send a specialized school to see if safety conditions are guaranteed in the obstetric service of Hospital de Santa Maria, the minister assumed that “all contributions from various institutions are very be welcome”.
Finally, Manuel Pizarro assumed he was “confident” that this will be a quieter summer in midwifery services than 2022.
“You have two regions [Lisboa e Vale do Tejo e Algarve] work with a rotation regime of some maternity hospitals, but the truth is that since the introduction of this model, at the end of 2022, everything is running smoothly”he concluded.
Source: DN
