Prime Minister Luís Montenegro on Tuesday praised the “excellence of the innovation, research and treatment conditions” of the Botton-Champalimaud centre dedicated to the study and treatment of pancreatic cancer, congratulating Leonor Beleza for her “remarkable work”.
“It was with deep gratitude that I visited the Botton-Champalimaud Pancreatic Cancer Center and I was able to verify the excellence of the conditions of innovation, research and treatment. “This company offers its people,” said the Prime Minister, who read to journalists a message he had written in the institution’s book of honour in Lisbon.
The head of the Executive and the Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martins, visited the facilities of the Botton-Champalimaud Pancreatic Cancer Centre, dedicated to the research and treatment of pancreatic cancer, on Tuesday for a visit that lasted approximately one hour.
In the end, Luís Montenegro did not want to make any statements to journalists, only reading the message he left in the guest book.
The visit was led by a delegation composed of the president of the Champalimaud Foundation and the State Councillor Leonor Beleza, who recently rejected a presidential candidacy after PSD Secretary General Hugo Soares added her name to a list of possible candidates, for Belém, from the PSD area, and by the institution’s vice-president João Silveira Botelho, whom Montenegro praised.
“I would like, on this occasion, to leave a few words of enormous congratulations to Dr. Leonor Belleza and to Dr. João Silveira Botelho for the remarkable work carried out in favour of health and progress in the treatment of highly problematic pathologies,” he said.
Luis Montenegro heard explanations about the type of research and treatments carried out here and visited recent facilities, some of which are not yet in use.
In the message he left in the book of honor and read aloud, The Prime Minister stressed that “the humanistic vision that emanates from every detail and the desire to reconcile treatments with the well-being of users “It’s really moving.”
“Having had the opportunity to be here and see this recognition coming from other geographies, such as the United States of America, reinforces my belief that Portugal can, in any field, be at the forefront of progress in the world,” said the head of the executive.
The Botton-Champalimaud centre, dedicated to the study and treatment of pancreatic cancer, was inaugurated in September 2021 and was the result of a collaboration between the Champalimaud Foundation and the couple Maurício and Charlotte Botton, who contributed 50 million euros for its construction.
This is the first centre in the world dedicated to simultaneously researching and treating one of the most deadly types of cancer.
Source: Observadora
