Doctors, technicians, nurses and managers are destroying the minister’s governance

Manuel Pizarro arrived at the Ministry of Health with promises of improvements and a new impetus for governance. A specialist in internal medicine, he gave hope to the sector of being able to treat the National Health Service (SNS) as a whole, but the treatments were not systemic, structural or curative. Almost a year later, the minister was trying to stabilize the social media crises, but without a reform response.

The start was promising. However, during these months, in addition to the work carried out by the Executive Directorate of the Social Networking System (DE-SNS), we have seen little. It seems to be just a reaction to the problems raised by the structures representing health professionals. During this time, services were left at a standstill,” criticizes Gustavo Tato Borges, president of the National Association of Public Health Physicians. “Some points that the ministry itself has identified as essential, such as the supposed health promotion agency, raise a lot of doubts, contrary to what it has defended Previous reform commissions (also deferred with renewal to another team) which involves strengthening the Directorate General of Health (DGS) and not by duplicating or even dividing competencies into redundant structures, as he says, for example in his district.

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