PCP defends appreciation of SNS health workers in the Algarve

MP Joao Dias, representative of the parliamentary PCP group, recently introduced draft Resolution No. Conditions for the provision of health care in the Algarve region, based on professional dignity and respect for workers’ rights.

According to the PCP, in the special case of the Algarve area, “the available data show a lack of concrete answers and measures by the government to reform health professionals in the area’s SNS units.”

For the party, the regional reality associated with the lack of human resources in the system of social networks and the inadequacy of retention of these professionals, competing factors such as those announced by representative organizations of workers, specifically by representatives of nurses, which includes differentiated therapies among the units incorporated in the CHUA with respect to It calculates points for career progression and failure to implement the guidelines and commitments already made by the Algarve Regional Health Department on this topic.

The PCP argues that it is necessary to take measures to value health workers, “in order to have a more robust SNS, both in the provision of care, in the prevention and screening of disease cases, as well as in the process of maintaining health,” the statement reads.