A request by the Left Bloc to listen to the Minister of Health on the closure of maternity and emergency rooms was rejected this Wednesday in the parliamentary health committee with the PS voting against, a BE Lusa source said.

According to the same source, the other parties voted in favor of the audience, except Enough, who “wasn’t in the room”.

BE wanted to hear in parliament the Minister of Health, Manuel Pizarro, about the closure of maternity and obstetrics/gynecology emergencies in the National Health Service.

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A request from the PAN for the hearing of the Minister of Health and the direction of the Portuguese Association of Auxiliary Health Technicians on the process of creating the auxiliary health technician career was not discussed at this Wednesday’s meeting of the Health Commission for scheduling issues. , according to a party source contacted by Lusa.

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The coordinator of the Bloco de Esquerda, Catarina Martins, reacted to the PS’s vote against her party’s PS request, saying that the Socialists “are no longer ashamed of being an absolute majority.”

The practice was to make it possible to listen to the ministers, but this has changed. The PS accepted António Costa’s request and was no longer ashamed of being an absolute majority. This Wednesday was in Health. this legislative session, Marta Feared came to parliament on obstetric emergencies. Pizarro will not come”, reads a publication by Catarina Martins on the social network Twitter.

According to the request presented by BE last week, the purpose of the hearing was for Manuel Pizarro to clarify whether the Government will proceed to the concentration and closure of maternity and obstetric emergencies.

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Blockist deputies pointed out that the follow-up commission created in June by the Government in the face of successive temporary closures of emergency obstetrics and gynecology services in various parts of the country proposed “the concentration of responses in the area of ​​obstetrics and gynecology, which will represent that of some services in various hospitals in the country”.

The Bloc considered that “it is essential that the Assembly of the Republic listen to the Minister of Health on this issue because it is urgent that the Government clarify whether it agrees with the proposals for the concentration and closure of services, and whether it will proceed with them.” measures and what services and populations will be harmed by such a measure.

In the document, the blockers said that “in the summer of 2019, the possibility of a staggered closure of obstetric emergencies in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region was raised” and, at that time, “the problem was, once moreover, the lack of professionals to guarantee all scales of operation of these services”.

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Three years have passed and the Government has done nothing, thus maintaining the possibility of closing the SNS services, now in an even more generalized and dramatic way because it can be extended to the entire country”, they warn.

A request from the PAN for the hearing of the Minister of Health and the direction of the Portuguese Association of Auxiliary Health Technicians on the process of creating the auxiliary health technician career was not discussed at today’s meeting of the Health Committee, for scheduling reasons. , according to a party source contacted by Lusa.