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One of the new government's promises is to create, within 60 days, an emergency plan that includes actions for this year and next to solve the main problems faced by social security.
Ana Paula Martins, former president of the Pharmacists' Union, will be the new Minister of Health, thus assuming responsibility for solving one of the problems that has characterized 2023: the crisis in the National Health Service.
Urgency. It is the word associated with health sector challenges that cannot be postponed. Ana Paula Martins inherits the need to find a solution to the shortage of human resources in the public sector.
Once he assumes the government position, he will be awaited by negotiation requests, which were previously requested by the Nurses Union and the National Doctors Union.
“The negotiations should be serious and in a transparent way, adhering to the basic rules, without manipulation and without behind-the-scenes games, unlike Manuel Pizarro,” Joana Bordallo y Sa, president of FNAM, tells SIC.
One of the promises of the new executive authority
One of the new government's promises is to create, within 60 days, an emergency plan that includes measures for this year and next, which solve the problem of shortages of family doctors, delays in consultations, surgeries, or waiting periods in emergency situations.
Unions ask the new minister to accept the contribution of health workers.
“SIM is available to meet the Minister urgently because no one can imagine a plan without the involvement of professionals and doctors who are thoughtful people, along with the solution and the SNS,” reveals Nuno Rodríguez, Secretary General of the Independent Union of Doctors.
The solution that Ana Paula Martins will have to find to solve the main weaknesses of the National Health Service.
The new Minister of Health is a pharmacist
The new Minister of Health is a pharmacist, and has been associated with the General Directorate of Public Security for more than 20 years, and became vice-president of the party. The board of directors of Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte was headed by SNS Executive Director Fernando Araujo.
He left the role after a year and now it is Ana Paula Martins who holds the future of the trend in her hands.
