The PSD/Algarve decided to offer trips to the European Parliament, in Brussels, to the five people who collect the most signatures for the petition “New Hospital Central do Algarve Now”, according to a message posted on social media by the district president of the party. .
The goal is to reward the people most committed to this cause,” the regional social democratic leader, Cristóvão Norte, told Lusa, adding that the petition “already has more than 1,000 signatures.”
According to Cristóvão Norte’s message published Tuesday on social networks, “for the five people who collect the most signatures […] a trip is offered, with accommodation included, to visit the European Parliament, in Brussels, between November 28 and 30”.
The PSD/Algarve aims to reach 7,500 signatures by the end of the year, the number necessary for the construction of the new Central Hospital of the Algarve to be discussed in a debate to that effect in the Assembly of the Republic.
Cristovão Norte assured that “people are in favor” of this construction, but that the matter has been “promised and postponed for a long time”being important to carry out actions of this type.
According to the text of the petition addressed to the Prime Minister, António Costa, “the realization of a new Central Hospital in the Algarve is an indisputable necessity for the region”.
As mentioned in the petition, since 2003 that hospital has been considered “a fundamental infrastructure” by “all governments, without exception, parties, deputies, mayors, orders, unions, among others.”
The text recalls that, in 2005, the acting Government commissioned a study in which the Central Hospital of the Algarve ranked second in the “ordering of priorities for the construction of new hospital units”.
However, the construction of the infrastructure never advanced, “unknown any decision-making procedure to make it a reality.”
This postponement is very detrimental to the interests of the region and the Algarve, but also the country,” the petition stresses.
The project for a new hospital in the Algarve dates back to 2002, when the then Minister of Health, Luís Filipe Pereira (PSD), created, among others, an interdepartmental group to launch public-private partnerships, namely a new hospital unit to install in the Parque das Cidades, between Faro and Loulé.
The following year, in 2003, the land for its construction was approved, in 2007 the healthcare profile and dimensioning were approved and, in 2008, the then Prime Minister, José Sócrates (PS), even laid the first stone of the hospital, which It would be ready in 2013.
The public petition can be signed online at https://peticaopublica.com/pview.aspx?pi=PT113410.
Source: Observadora
