This Thursday, the PSD criticized the hospital’s emergency room reorganization plan, likening it to “colorful school calendars.”
“There are no excuses for a National Health Service (SNS) that is increasingly behind closed doors, with emergency services shutting down left and right, sometimes at night, sometimes on weekends, when emergency cards are more like colorful school calendars, with pregnant women and children have to travel dozens and sometimes even more than 100 kilometers when they have a situation that requires urgent hospital care”criticized PSD deputy Rui Cristina in a political statement in plenary.
Speaking about the pre-collapse of the SNS, the Social Democrat accused the PS of being “largely responsible” for the “deplorable state of this sector”, giving examples of PSD alternative proposals and “failures” of the socialists, such as the increase in general practitioner coverage through the use of social and private sector doctors.
“The PSD is well aware of its responsibility to break new ground for the SNS that puts people above interests and political fictions and takes advantage of the remaining installed capacity in the health system once and for all, while knowing how they can effectively value and recognize healthcare workers”Rui Cristina appealed.
In response from the PS bench, deputy Luís Soares accused the PS of “three strokes”.
“Firstly that the PS is to blame and we agree on that. Everything that has happened in the SNS since ’75 and what is good is the responsibility of the PS. We were the ones who built it with the vote against of the PSD.”he said.
The socialist deputy also contradicted the idea that the PS was destroying the SNS, refuting, with regard to emergency reorganization, that the government “reforms, provides security, provides stability”.
“Today there is not a single failure in gynecological emergencies (…) In a while we will discuss whether the pediatric emergency plan will not produce results”provided.
Thirdly, the PS deputy left a guarantee that the party will always vote against PSD proposals that aim to “give up the public system and transfer it to private systems”, with Rui Cristina refuting that what the social- defending democrats, is a connection between the different sectors.
PCP and BE questioned the legitimacy of the PSD to criticize the current SNS, with blocking parliamentary leader Pedro Filipe Soares underlining that the party voted against valuing health workers’ careers when the PS lacked an absolute majority.
“Now you’ve seen the light and realize that what failed was what the pros needed?”he wondered.
Along the same lines, communist deputy João Dias believed that “when the PSD speaks out in defense of the SNS, it should even ask for a permit”, arguing that the solution is to improve the working conditions of professionals.
For Chega, Deputy Pedro Frazão believed that there is “a perfect storm in the SNS” and pointed to the direct responsibilities of the Prime Minister, António Costa.
Joana Cordeiro, IL deputy, defended the virtues of the SNS, but regretted that the system has not been able to adapt, calling not to continue “pressing the solutions of the past”.
Source: DN
