And the former leader of the CDS-PP Adolfo Mesquita Nunes considered this Friday in Espinho that, with her “ideological obsession”, the outgoing minister, Marta Temido, managed to “dig even more” the grave of the National Health Service (SNS).
After joining the XIX Constitutional Government as Secretary of State for Tourism, this official ceased to be a party member in October 2021, but participated this Friday in the Escola de Quadros which, aimed at elements of the Popular Youth, runs until Sunday in Espino. , from the district of Aveiro.
It was there that, when asked by a citizen about the State’s credits for Health, Adolfo Mesquita Nunes addressed the issue, without ever mentioning the specific name of the minister who presented her resignation on Tuesday.
“The worst SNS workers are those who don’t want to reform it. But no one did as much in Portugal [pela degradação da Saúde] like this minister, who with her ideological obsession, the only thing she did was investigate even more in the SNS”, he declared.
Like the socialist deputy Sérgio Sousa Pinto, who, invited to the same panel, defended shortly before that the SNS needs a reform that has not materialized due to the “cobwebs that hinder the mental attic” of its directors, Adolfo Mesquita Nunes also supported the need to new management formats in this sector of the State.
Both admit that the solution will not necessarily go through a mixed model in the style of public-private partnerships, but it will certainly involve mutual learning. “The question is not whether the management is public or private, what needs to be done is to mitigate the limitations of the public sector, taking advantage, when compatible, of the best of private management,” explained Adolfo Mesquita Nunes.
For the former governor, what was seen in the country was “a setback, in the sense of saying, Manicheistically, that the private sector cannot play a relevant role in Health, that it can only play it when the State does not arrive. — and the problem is that the State does not arrive”.
“There are many upper middle class people who use Twitter to say that they are very satisfied with the SNS. Well, because you know I don’t know how many doctors. Those who have contacts can have good experiences. But those who, like in Covilhã, have been waiting for two years for an ophthalmology appointment will not say that it went well, ”she declared.
Asking the left to stop limiting itself to the “discussion of the public-private dichotomy” and the right to stop “accepting this conversation instead of debating concrete solutions”, Adolfo Mesquita Nunes concluded: “What the majority of the people want to know is how they get to the hospital and see their life resolved.”
Source: Observadora
