The president of the Ordem dos Farmacêuticos appealed this Monday, when Pharmacist’s Day is commemorated, for the resumption of negotiations with the guardianship to resolve the “injustices” created by the new legislation that creates the pharmaceutical career.
We were negotiating with the Secretary of State, who had understood the genesis of the problem, and we were waiting for the ministry to make a proposal to modify the legislation to improve it and try to eliminate the injustices that this law creates,” Helder told Lusa Mota Filipe.
The president acknowledged that the process ended up hampered by the change in the ministerial team, underlining the need to move forward with these changes.
“In today’s speech [da cerimónia] Pharmacist’s Day will be the motto need to resume negotiations to improve legislation and prevent injustice with the pharmacists who currently work in the SNS [Serviço Nacional de Saúde] and that they cannot see this working time recognized,” he said.
Hélder Mota Filipe also stressed the need to find a mechanism that allows, while the first pharmacists of the boarding school (pharmaceutical residency) are being trained – whose entrance exam is scheduled for next Thursday 29 – “it is possible to continue hiring pharmaceutical specialists for the NHS” .
“The law is completely ironclad and only allows pharmacists to enter the SNS through pharmaceutical residency, which lasts four years,” explained the president, stressing: “when we already have some 300 pharmacists missing from the SNS today, in four years , chaos will be installed because it will be these 300, plus those who go to the private sector and more those who go to retirement.
“If we do not create a mechanism that allows us to meet the needs of human resources in hospital pharmacy and also in clinical analyzes in SNS hospitals we will have a situation that is completely unsustainable”, he insisted.
The College of Pharmacists has been warning about the weaknesses of pharmaceutical services in SNS hospitals and more than a hundred of these professionals have already signed disclaimers.
In statements to Lusa, the president explained that the discharge cases already covered professionals from the Porto University Hospital Center, Porto IPO and Coimbra University Hospital Center.
“More important than the number [de profissionais que assinaram] is that in each service practically all the professionals signed, which means that it is not politically motivated. This clearly shows the cross-cutting discontent with this situation,” he said.
Hélder Mota Filipe stressed that the fact that there are no more episodes of these “does not mean that dissatisfaction does not persist”, exemplifying: “We have had daily, in the Order, signs of this dissatisfaction in SNS hospitals throughout the country” .
“I am hopeful that this ministerial team. It is one of the most prepared teams with the most potential that we have had in recent years in the Ministry of Health (…) This is going to create the conditions so that they can really perform their duties well, ”he concluded.
The Order of Pharmacists celebrates Pharmacist’s Day this Monday with an event at the Penha Loga Monastery, in Sintra, which will be attended by the Minister of Health, Manuel Pizarro.
Source: Observadora
