The coordination secretary of the PS/Corvo, Lubélio Mendonça, defended this Wednesday the “urgent adoption” of measures of the Government of the Azores to prevent the “restrictions” in the health unit of the island.
According to the socialist, we are facing the “state of total abandonment to which this coalition government of the Azores has brought the island’s health unit”, requesting that “necessary and urgent measures to be taken that can prevent restrictions have been verified.”
Lubélio Mendonça, quoted in a press release, says that the situation has been dragging on since June, “when, due to the dismissal of the resident doctor and health delegate on the island, the provision of health services in Corvo began to be clearly weakened”.
The political leader says that the regional secretary of Health “defended, in June, the need to place another doctor in the Corvo Health Centerjustifying itself with the possibility that the Ravenclaws have a second opinion, but also to prevent assistance to the population, in case of any mishap with the resident doctor”.
“What we found is that, in addition to a couple of weeks where the Ravenclaws were entitled to two doctors,We continue now with only one“, declares Lubélio Mendonça.
According to the socialist, the doctor’s departure from the island occurred against the will of the Ravenclaws and not under the conditions mentioned by the regional health secretary”, according to which the professional “would continue to provide services as a family doctor, despite his dismissal from the Health Council.” Administration of the Health Unit of Ilha do Corvo”.
Lubélio Mendonça says that in addition to “systematic departures from the island by the now appointed health delegate“The situation is aggravated by the lack of members of the board of directors of the health unit”; the fact that they are not currently present on the island “makes the health center unable to function fully.”
“The health of the inhabitants of the island of Corvo is left to their fate,” concludes the PS.
Source: Observadora
