Livre ruled on Tuesday that the resignation of health minister Marta Temido could be interpreted as “a withdrawal” by the government from solving the sector’s problems and demanded “clear signals” from the prime minister.
In a statement, the party represented in parliament by Rui Tavares said the resignation of Marta Temido, announced at dawn, “demonstrates the inability to face the many signs of dysfunction and degradation” of the National Health Service (SNS). ).
“can be understood” [a demissão] like a stop [do Governo] when we need action,” said Livre.
The party recalled that this resignation “comes on the same night that another case was revealed of concern to everyone, involving the death of a pregnant woman, in Lisbon”, while she was transferred to another hospital due to lack of vacancy in the one in that it was.
“Without decisive action in defense of the SNS and without a government that has the courage to take measures to reverse the chronic under-budgeting situation it suffers, the one who succeeds Marta Temido can only become a manager of the SNS’s demise. ” pleaded for the poppy party.
“Faced with such a dire scenario,” Livre continued, “clear signs of political support for structural defense measures” from the National Health Service are required from the prime minister.
Marta Temido resigned this morning because she understood she “no longer had the conditions” to keep the position.
A source close to the prime minister told Lusa that the replacement “will not be soon” and that António Costa would like the outgoing minister to complete the process of defining the new executive direction of the SNS.
Source: DN
