The president of the republic defended this Saturday that there is a “unique opportunity” to update the National Health Service (SNS) that “should not be missed” as it is necessary to “adapt to the new reality”.
During the Hippocratic oath ceremony in the southern region, in Lisbon, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa defended that the National Health Service “is invaluable”, so it is hoped that “it will be possible to update the SNS, because it has a long history and rich history, but the world has changed, Europe has changed and Portugal has changed”.
“And it is necessary to adapt it to the new reality and there is a unique, unique opportunity here, which was not possible during the pandemic, which was partially faced before the pandemic, which is to look at this SNS and realize that now is the time to make this adjustment in human, financial, logistical and technical resources, in organization, in management, in testing the new management model in which who sets the policy, who sets the policy, who has to manage according to skills, looking at the field, must act with leeway, separating one from the other,” he stressed.
Given that the “opportunity has been created”, the head of state stated that he hopes “it will not be wasted”.
“It was so hard to get to the point where, after the pandemic was overcome and turned into an endemic disease, there were the minimum conditions to make this separation and provide resources and resources for what could be a new phase of SNS management. ought to be. which cannot be wasted.” for the “thousands and thousands and thousands who are healthcare professionals and are active”.
“It is what we should all want, regardless of whether we belong to a sector, a quadrant, an orientation, whether we are in power or not in power, which is the most impermanent thing in the world. What is not impermanent is real finding a formula that looks at those priorities, life and health, recreating the conditions that were created in other times and reformulated over decades, but today are faced with challenges like never before, inside and outside, in other societies, and they are crucial challenges”, stressed.
Source: DN
