The president of the republic said this Thursday that a “series of specific doubts” were addressed to the government about the diploma that the executive leadership of the SNS is creating, citing that it is waiting for “the answer”, or “the silence”, in order to make a decision. .
“I must confess that a series of specific doubts are addressed to the government, they are not substantive, four or five.” [dúvidas]about aspects related to this new diploma”, said Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, speaking to journalists in Luanda, where he attended the inauguration ceremony of the re-elected President of the Republic of Angola, João Lourenço.
“Let’s see whether the answer comes or not, what the answer is, and whether the silence or the answer is enough to limit or delay what we all want, which is the enactment of the statute of the National Health Service (SNS). “, added.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa insisted that the most important thing is “the biological” in the health sector to allow the government to set the “political lines” and then have “who manages autonomously, not dependent on the government votes in the management of the day-to-day or everyday sensitivities”.
“If this is for people who understand this and wear the shirt and move on to this step, there is already a Social Security Institute in Social Security that runs this, not the Secretary of Social Security, but this Institute that obeys the political government of the government. lines,” he emphasized.
For Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa “a turnaround in health is needed” that “has nothing to do with the minister a, b, c or d, it has to do with the way of looking at solving the problem of the governance of the National Health Service”.
The president of the republic also defended that the solution should help the prime minister not to be “called to become minister of I don’t know how many portfolios at the same time”.
“And therefore, [que] have a team that allows you to coordinate policy while in Europe and oversee key international issues. All this is also a good thing, because I had long said that political coordination in governments was fundamental,” he added.
On September 8, the government approved in the Council of Ministers the Legislative Decree establishing the executive leadership of the National Health Service (SNS), as provided for in the SNS statute.
The SNS statute was promulgated on August 1 by the president of the republic, who at the time believed it would be “incomprehensible” to delay it, and urged the government to speed up regulation and raise ambiguous points. clear up.
On Sunday, the president of the republic ruled that the diploma he obtained at the SNS is “on the right track” by creating an institution responsible for management independent of political decisions.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa will swear in the three new secretaries of state proposed by the Prime Minister, two from the Ministry of Health, on Friday at 7.30 pm in Palácio de Belém, the Republic’s presidency announced today on its page on the internet.
The socialist leader and hitherto mayor of Caminha, Miguel Alves, takes office as Deputy Secretary of State to the Prime Minister, as well as Ricardo Mestre in the position of Secretary of State for Health and Margarida Tavares in the role of Secretary of State for Health Promotion.
The head of state had also said earlier this week that only after the inauguration of the new health secretaries of state, from the ministry now overseen by Manuel Pizarro, would it be “true the appointment of the executive director.” [do SNS]”.
Source: DN
