The government law creating the executive leadership of the SNS has been promulgated by the President of the Republic and will come into effect on October 1.
Its entry into force was announced on the Presidency’s website around 07:05 PM. Given that the diploma largely addresses the concerns expressed at the time of the promulgation of the National Health Service (SNS) statute, as well as some of the doubts expressed today have been clarified by the government, and in the hope this opportunity because change is not wasted, the president of the republic has promulgated the diploma approving the structure of the executive leadership of the SNS,” reads the presidential note.
About an hour earlier, at the end of a visit to Curry Cabral Hospital – where he arrived in Lisbon from Luanda – the president had told reporters that he would enact the law, which will take effect on Oct. 1. Marcelo went to the hospital to visit a commando soldier who was undergoing a liver transplant after a military exercise.
In these statements in Curry Cabral, the president was cautious about the name that would have been chosen for the position of executive director of the SNS, Fernando Araújo, president of the Centro Hospital Universitário de São João, in Porto. “Formally, I do not know the government’s choice,” he said – recalling that this choice does not need validation.
“I have learned at my age that it is better not to put the cart before the horse,” he said, refusing to confirm Fernando Araújo’s name as the government’s choice.
The president assured that the government had allayed its doubts about the government’s “minus one” diploma, which has to do with the powers over the health center groupings (currently from the ARS, but that will pass, at least in part, to the CCDRs).
As for the soldier he visited, he said his health situation had evolved in a “very positive way”. However, he declined to say whether any conclusions should be drawn about military training in the commandos, arguing that an investigation is underway.
The incident that prompted the need for a liver transplant in one soldier also caused damage to five others, but less severe.
The course has been interrupted in the meantime.
Source: DN
