PSD Deputy / Azores Carlos Freitas highlighted the “determination of the regional government with the decision to build the health center in Lajes do Pico”.
The Social Democratic parliamentarian was speaking while presenting the petition calling for the construction of a new health center in Lajes do Pico, at the Provincial Legislative Assembly, in Horta.
For Carlos Freitas, “Without the regional government, the decline of infrastructure would have been a chronic disease, in which the Socialist Party was left unfinished business, entangled in great legal quandary.”
To this he protested, “The socialist government shut down the Permanent Assistance Service (SAP) in that municipality, and shut down the Bidadi Medical Center, leaving a heavy legacy of which he should be ashamed.”
Carlos Freitas emphasized that “in 2016, the then regional health minister stated: It’s a rehabilitation work or nothing. There is no Plan B”, which shows consideration for the population.
Later, in 2019, the deputy said: “The socialist government has failed to sign an agreement with Santa Casa da Misericordia das Lajes do Pico, which provides for the rehabilitation of the place.”
For its part, “the PSD / Azores made a commitment in its electoral programme, and as soon as it took office, in the middle of the pandemic, it resumed the SAP in Lajes and São Roque, reopened the medical center in the diocese of Lajes health center,” Piedadi stressed.
The Social Democratic Parliamentarian welcomed the dialogue position taken by the Coalition Government (PSD, CDS-PP and PPM) which listened from the outset to the Pico Island Health Unit to “survey the needs to be included within the framework of the new community, writing immediately for the construction of the new health centre”.
He concluded, “Now is the time to roll up your sleeves and get to work, choose a place that is unobstructed and with good access, and give back to the local population what has been taken away from them by successive socialist governments.”
