On Friday, in São Jorge, the regional secretary for health and sports said the regional government had “made a great effort” to provide local health personnel with professionals “in sufficient numbers to meet the needs”.
Speaking at the opening of the fourth session of the Health 2030 Forum held in Vilas, Cleo Meneses “The various measures underway to provide the island with a sufficient number of health professionals,” he noted, in São Jorge ” There is already a doctor who will be assigned, another doctor has arrived to replace the other doctor who left in the meantime, and there is still another doctor who will arrive in the near future.”
“In addition to doctors, there is a competition for two nurses, and there are three other vacancies that will be filled with an indefinite contract,” said the official, who also spoke of “authorized recruitment.” From three other activists, a psychiatrist, an occupational therapist and two analysis technicians.
“Tenders are taking place so that the island of São Jorge has a sufficient number of health professionals, as I said, and that never happened,” he emphasized.
The Regional Secretary for Health and Sports also referred to the work being done at Vilas Health Center “which is not worthy anywhere in the world” and said that it had faced “a very serious problem, both legally and with the contractor, with working with the projects, there was nothing or What was there was a problem.”
“We have solved the problem with the contractor, set up a new project, the work is moving forward and will be finished early which is a good example of what needs to be done, following the bad examples we had of deteriorating facilities”confirmed.
“The problem is that in the Azores, the only situation of deteriorating installations was not São Jorge. Our facilities have deteriorated in need of work, from Corfu to Santa Maria,” he said.
Clélio Meneses once again cited the Recovery and Resiliency (PRR) plan as an important support for the project being developed for equipment acquisition and health digitization.
In this context, he expressed his conviction that “technology is in fact an aid and support for health care to be faster and more effective and to serve users and health professionals.”
The official also justified the need to interfere with the interoperability of systems to prevent “completely unacceptable situations, which unfortunately still occur and which cause great inconvenience to clinicians who are busy doing what is not necessary and, above all, for users”. It is often going backwards and forwards, because the computer system that has to be supportive, is a difficulty that affects people’s lives.”
“It is important that we intervene. In order to change this system and make it more flexible and effective,” he emphasized.
