The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, has already received and is analyzing the decree-law approving the Statute of the SNA, and should make a decision early next week, a source from Belen told Lusa.
The decree-law entered the presidential administration on Friday “after the end of the services, but it is being analyzed so that, as the president of the republic announced, it can be adopted quickly,” said a Belen source. .
According to the same source, the decision should be “at the beginning of the week, possibly on Monday.”
On July 7, the Council of Ministers approved a Decree-Law approving the Statute of the National Health Service (NHS), following on from the legal regime established by the Basic Health Law.
According to a statement at this meeting of the Council of Ministers, “The new charter, which was in public discussion between October and November 2021, updates the definition of the SNS, the list of its institutions and services, the rights and obligations of its beneficiaries. , its territorial and functional organization, the rules for the use of its human and financial resources and the participation of citizens, users, family members, municipalities and other sectors in the functioning of the SNA.
This decree “also approves the legal regime of the Health Center Groups and the statutes of the hospital departments of the SNA.”
On Friday in Cascais, the head of state said he hoped the decree-law on the SNA would arrive “quickly for promulgation by the President of the Republic.”
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
