The chairman of the PSD defended this Wednesday a national healthcare pact, involving the government, parties and the public, social and private sectors, to put an end to the “hypocrisy based on feet of clay” that the SNS will be sufficient.
At the end of an audience with the President of the Republic, Luís Montenegro argued that “the healthcare sector needs strong commitment with a strategic and structural dimension”.
“In Portugal we need a national healthcare pact involving the government, political parties and all sectors of activity, public, private and social,” he declared.
When asked whether he will try to talk to the Prime Minister about this pact, The PSD leader clarified that the understanding he defends “is not between PS and PSD”, but concerns “the establishment of operational rules” for a healthcare system that includes the three sectors.
“It is a difference of opinion that has arisen between PS and PSD for years on ideological whim. This fad and ideology has produced bad results and rests on clay feet,” he defended.
Montenegro said he wanted to expose the “hypocrisy in Portugal” in the health sector: “Everyone knows that in health centers and hospitals the chaos would be much worse if there had been no external service providers, the employees.”
“It has already become clear to us that the SNS will never have the doctors it needs at this level,” he emphasized.
This hearing for Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was urgently requested on Tuesday by the President of the PSD, after he even interrupted an initiative in Vila Real because he was concerned about the warning of the Executive Director of the National Health Service (SNS) about the possibility of a “dramatic November” in the sector.
Without revealing the content of the conversation with Marcelo Rebelo de Sousathe Social Democratic leader said he felt that the President of the Republic understood the arguments he presented.
Montenegro called on the government not to further increase unrest among Portuguese and to “promote peace and stability with doctors,” accusing the health minister and the SNS executive director of confusing their roles in recent days.
“We believe it is possible and desirable to reach an agreement with the doctors,” he said.
However, the PSD leader warned that not all of the SNS’s problems depend on this agreement.
“It is necessary to speak the truth and not create a lack of expectations and avoid the Minister of Health acting as Executive Director and the Executive Director presenting himself as Minister of Health,” he said, making the strange two consecutive found interviews. of Fernando Araújo and Manuel Pizarro, in which, he believed, they stood in the way of each other’s competences.
Montenegro accused the government of “a complete mistake in defining the policy in the field of health care”, placing the maximum responsibility on the Prime Minister, since at this point there is no longer only the problem of the lack of access of the Portuguese to health care, services, but for your safety.
“Dr. António Costa wanted to provide a solution to the SNS that did not work. It was a complete failure and resulted in the chaos that threatens,” he said, appealing to people who still have the common sense to design the Portuguese health care system for “the next two or three decades.”
When leaving the Belém Palace, Luís Montenegro did not want to answer questions about other topics, such as the statements made by the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, on the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Source: DN
