The closure of ten maternity hospitals this summer, making deliveries particularly difficult, is an example of what is being done to empty the SNS, said the former coordinator of Bloco de Esquerda.
The former coordinator of the Bloco de Esquerda (BE), Catarina Martins, considered today that the state of the National Health Service (SNS) is due to the ongoing “hollow-out plan”, which transferred users and professionals to the private sector.
Speaking before a panel at the Forum Socialismo – the political “forum” of BE, which took place between Friday and today, in Viseu –, Catarina Martins criticized the government for not being able to “bring the negotiations with the doctors to a successful outcome”, which was the most important thing. Ensure that social networking services have the ability to function.
“Minister Manuel Pizarro just said that he is very surprised that he could not reach an agreement with the doctors. We can say that Manuel Pizarro is amazed at his incompetence,” the former leader of the blockade told a crowd of people. classroom.
However, Catarina Martins said she feared “it could be much worse” than the minister’s incompetence: “There is a plan, and the plan is to empty the National Health Service”.
Catarina Martins was sarcastic, saying that Manuel Pizarro’s “big proposal” was a 5% salary increase, which was “zero, nothing”.
In his view, the closure of ten maternity hospitals this summer, which led to private deliveries, is an example of what is being done to empty the social sewage system.
“It’s the best deal the private sector has ever had. They don’t have any responsibility. If someone gets there and is born, the state pays five thousand euros. It’s never happened before.”
For Catarina Martins, “what the government is doing today is emptying social networking services of professionals,” sending “users to the private sector under the pretext that there are no professionals in social networking services.”
The path “is not to send users to the private sector, but to look for professionals from the private sector,” BE says.
According to Catarina Martins, it was not the end of public-private partnerships that led to the SNS crisis, although for the state these partnerships amounted to “hiding public debt.”
“[Os privados]He warned that with everything they had learned and the money they were receiving in this way, they had grown so much that today they had much greater ambition.
If the Socialist Party (PS) can say that “there has never been so much money for the SNS and there have never been so many professionals in the SNS”, Catarina Martins argued that “both are true and, at the same time, they are a lie.” .
He explained, “The increase in the budget is offset by an increase in transfers from the National Security Service to the private sector,” adding that “sometimes you can spend a lot of money, but the rescue system has much less.”
According to Katarina Martins, “there are also more professionals”, but “there are many who do not work full-time at SNS”, and therefore, there are “fewer who are willing to do metrics”.
“The private sector is already everywhere: performing surgeries, delivering deliveries, appointing SNS specialists, implementing complementary diagnostics, they do almost everything, even when we call them SNS,” the former bloc leader noted.
“This is why health care has become more expensive,” he warned, considering that this “tremendous pressure on health is unparalleled in any area of the welfare state.”
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