The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, warned on Friday that the management of the National Health Service (SNS) must be “independent, impartial and not politicized.”
“I draw attention to the step we want to take, now promised (…) before early next year in the management of the National Health Service, a determining factor in the national health care system, which separates political definition from independent management, exempt and not politicized, except in the sense that politics is everything that concerns human life, and certainly not partisan,” said the head of state in a video intervention at the Global Health Forum, taking place today and Saturday at the Estoril Congress Center
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa emphasized that in many cases ideas are relevant and apparently positive, but implementation has temporary limits: “We cannot wait indefinitely for this implementation and on the other hand, more and more qualitative requirements are being imposed.”
“All this means that there are very high expectations. Increasingly higher and also the need to translate these expectations into actual data in terms of all kinds of resources, starting with people, in terms of visible results,” he said.
Addressing the participants of the Congress, the Head of State said that he was “in a moment of change, of redefinition, under conditions and circumstances that are unlikely to be repeated in the coming years.”
“We can consider some of these circumstances as difficulties. In the field of healthcare, I refer specifically to aspects related to the needs and status of human resources, but there are others that represent unrepeatable conditions for achieving the necessary changes, because they are of great importance. an organizational character, structural, functional and even contextual, and it is in the necessary dialogue and reflection that forums like these are absolutely crucial in bringing together in a specific, concentrated and useful space and time the most diverse actors who can and should contribute deliver the changes we need to make,” he argued.
For the President of the Republic “it is a time for inspiration, for planning and better management. It is a time for changes in planning for the future. It is not enough to dream about it, it is necessary to make it come true.”
Speaking in the global context, he defended the need to reform global health organizations, “one or the other, not to say several, in a critical situation such as we saw at the beginning and which we saw at different moments of the pandemic in the kept an eye on.”
Present at the congress this morning were the Minister of Health, Manuel Pizarro, and the Executive Director of the SNS, Fernando Araújo.
Health policy, digital health, artificial intelligence, urban planning, climate change, development and sustainability are the topics that will be discussed by more than two hundred speakers from 14 countries at the Global Health Forum, organized by Fórum Saúde XXI and CIMGLOBAL.
Source: DN
