This Wednesday, the PSD accused the PS administration of recent years of creating a situation of chaos in the SNS and defended “a new strategy” that articulates the public sector with the private and social sectors.
This position was defended by the deputy Rui Cristina in a political statement in the Assembly of the Republic, in which he pointed to the current news of “Emergency services are overcrowded, with patients waiting for 11 and 14 hours, many of them left behind and piled on stretchers in the corridors, if not on the hospital floors”🇧🇷
The PSD delegate said that “More and more SNS hospitals, from the north to the south of the country, are dealing with chaotic situations, with exhausted professionals, collapsing services and desperate patients.”giving as examples “hospitals in Santa Maria, Faro, Penafiel, Évora, Amadora-Sintra, Almada, Setúbal, Barreiro-Montijo, Portimão, Loures, São Francisco Xavier, among many others”🇧🇷
“The PS has failed, the National Health Service (SNS) needs urgent care, it needs a new strategy, and the PSD is defending today – as it defended 43 years ago – an SNS that articulates the public sector with the private and social sectors, refusing nationalization and putting people first”defended the Social Democrat, given that “the Portuguese will surely transform their desperation into the strength of an alternative to the current socialist mismanagement”🇧🇷
In response to this intervention, PS deputy Luís Soares invoked “the years of PSD governance” between 2011 and 2015, claiming that the management of the SNS during that period “still has consequences today” and that his party ” exactly rebuilt the relationship”. of trust with health professionals”.
“We were responsible for recouping all cuts over the past seven years and presented the largest budget for the SNS in 2023″observed the socialist.
Rui Cristina, on the other hand, persisted “the chaos in which the SNS finds itself is the result of years of poor government policy and is the result of a lack of investment” of the PS, with state budgets “that are never implemented” entirely for this sector.
“This year was no exception. Until October, only EUR 140 million had been implemented, despite EUR 589 million foreseen for this year. That is only 23.8% of what they promised in the first ten months of this year 2022. What is the majority doing in the face of this? The PS refuses to accept the failure of seven years of poor health decisions”criticized.
The Social Democrat added “no one in Portugal has ever done as much for the private health sector as the PS and Prime Minister António Costa”🇧🇷
Rui Cristina recalled that in 1979 the PSD proposed “the establishment of a coeducational and inclusive National Health Service”which included all entities that provided health care – the then PPD voted against the PS law enacted that same year “the National Health Service (SNS), through which the state ensures the right to protection of health, under the terms of the Constitution”🇧🇷
Source: DN
