This Wednesday, the parties blamed the executive for mismanagement of the health sector, recalling the recent resignation of Marta Temido, with PSD and PCP criticizing the SNS Bylaws and Chega speaking of “chaos.”
The deputies intervened during the period of political declarations, at the meeting of the Standing Committee – the body that works in the Assembly of the Republic during the holiday break – before the debate with the Government on inflation.
João Diaz of PCP was the first to criticize most of the PS executives, pointing out that “it is the lack of response from the SNS that creates the space to refer patients to the private sector.”
“The government passively watched the weakening of the SNA by allowing the deterioration of the working conditions of medical workers, on the other hand, the measures taken by it should have made the SNA even more dependent on the private sector, as evidenced by the recently published Statute of the SNA, which represents an obvious setback in relation to the new The basic health law passed in 2019 exacerbates the promiscuity between public and private,” he said.
According to the Communists, the new SNA statute “includes as units of the SNA private institutions with which the public service enters into contracts”, “permits the transfer of hospital clinical services to external organizations”, and “retains a clear intention to return to ruinous public administration.” Private partnership in the field of healthcare”.
“The point is not that the government does not know what it can and should do if it did not exist, it was enough for it to take into account the proposals submitted by the PKP. It even, by its choice, allows the public service to slide into degradation,” he stressed.
For the PSD, MP Ricardo Baptista Leite warned that “the government wants to approve the SNS charter behind the people’s backs, behind the smokescreen”, blaming António Costa for the “progressive decline in the quality of service provided by the SNS”.
The Social Democrat also expressed regret that the executive branch did not move forward with the construction of hospitals in the country, citing that “the only equipment that is being built is produced with the money of the citizens of the municipality of Sintra”, but this installation “will not have any hospital bed”, because everything is for continuous care.
“Everyone remembers the cow with wings, which was introduced to the country by the Prime Minister. Well, a hospital without hospital beds is like a cow without wings – it just doesn’t fly. But everything is for propaganda,” he joked.
Recalling the resignation of Marta Temido, the MP said that “changing a minister without changing the government’s health policy is like treating an open fracture with a band-aid,” urging the prime minister to show “humility and acknowledge that the government has failed in health.”
“At a time when the country needs courage, we have a cowardly government,” he said.
From Chega’s side, MP Diogo Pacheco de Amorim also recalled the resignation of Marta Temido and spoke of the “health chaos, depletion of scarce resources” with “poor management guided by ideology rather than the harsh reality of facts.” .
The remaining speech of the deputy was devoted to the draft resolution presented by Chega on censorship of the behavior of the speaker of the Parliament, Augusto Santos Silva.
The MP said it was not about the party’s institutional respect for Santos Silva, but rather about freedom of expression.
“At stake is the greatest and indispensable good of any democracy: freedom of speech. We can say clearly and unambiguously what we think it is necessary to say. There is, and this is indisputable, a common basis for democracy, and this common basis is precisely freedom of expression and speech,” he stressed.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
