The Minister of Health said on Monday that he has not yet had access to the report of the Gynecology, Obstetrics and Birth Block Emergency Response Monitoring Commission, but that he will meet with the coordinator in the coming days.
I did not have access to the report. I will read the report very carefully and I will meet in the next few days with the coordinator of the commission, Professor Diogo Ayres de Campos,” said the Minister of Health, Manuel Pizarro, on the sidelines of the inauguration of the “Cidadão de Corpo Inteiro” exhibition. , from the University of Porto, which honors the doctor and humanist Nuno Grande.
In statements to journalists, the Minister of Health said that the concentration of emergencies and delivery blocks, one of the proposals in the document delivered to the Government on Saturday, is a “reflection” that the Government, the Ministry of Health and , “surely, together with the new direction of the National Health Service (SNS)”.
That is exactly what this address is for, it is to give more solidity to the technical analysis of the problems”, he observed.
Asked if the country will again witness the closure of emergency services, similar to what happened during the summer, the Minister of Health said that he could only guarantee that the Ministry will make “all efforts” to ensure the “response capacity” of the National Health System.
We will do everything possible so that the entire response capacity of the SNS exists permanently and that, in cases where this is not possible, we can coordinate with other means of the network so that the response is given in the best possible way ” , said. .
Regarding the new direction of the National Health Service, Manuel Pizarro said that this week will be the invitation to the future executive director and that “if all goes well”, I hope announce it this week.
“This week I hope to be in a position to announce who will be the CEO,” he revealed.
Saying that there is no “magic wand” that can solve the problems of the SNS overnight, Manuel Pizarro said that many of the problems are structural and take time, in addition to “good resource management”.
That is one of the virtues of the new executive management, it is to be able to more effectively articulate the different networks of the National Health Service”, he said.
Asked about the possibility that the headquarters of the executive management is not in Lisbon, Manuel Pizarro admitted that “that possibility always exists”.
“No Portuguese city is incapable of receiving the headquarters of the SNS directory. We will see what decision we can make on this matter, meaning what specific buildings are available,” he said.
Source: Observadora
