Eurico Castro Alves, a doctor and former president of Infarmed, has been chosen by the Minister of Health to coordinate a group of 13 people who will draw up the emergency plan, which will be presented in June.
The order proposal with the names of the 13 figures in the health sector selected by the Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martins, to which PÚBLICO has had access, has already been sent for publication in Republic DiariesThe task force has 30 days to submit its final report as of the date of publication of the order.
According to this Saturday’s issue of News diaryThe group will also be responsible for preparing the summer plan for the SNS, after the resigned CEO of the Executive Council of the SNS said that he did not feel in a position to do so, because he was not aware of the supervision plans for the SNS, rejecting the request made by the Minister to him during the meeting in which He brought them together last Tuesday at the Ministry’s headquarters.
The name of Eurico Castro Alves, current president of the Northern Regional Section of the Medical Association, has been brought up before News diary And it was confirmed by PÚBLICO.
In addition to Eurico Castro Alves, MD, specialist in general surgery, senior postgraduate assistant at the Local Health Unit (ULS) of Santo António, in Porto, and full professor at ICBAS, this group includes 12 other figures. Alberto Caldas AfonsoPediatrician and Director of the Maternal and Infant Center in Norte, Antonio Marqueza full professor and anesthesiologist who was responsible for the management committee of the Ministry of Health’s plan for World Youth Day; Catarina Baptistahospital director who was a member of the previous management led by Ana Paula Martins at the helm of Santa María, has postgraduate studies in clinical trial monitoring and health digitalization; Claudia Bello FerreiraCertificate in Accounting and Financial Management and with a Senior Management Course in Health Unit Management for Managers; Joao Gouveiadirector of the ULS Central Emergency Service in Santa Maria who has played a key role during the pandemic.
This set also includes: Lucendo Ormonddirector of the Anesthesia and Operating Room Service at ULS in Santa Maria; Luis Campos PinheiroProfessor at Nova Medical School and Director of the Center for Integrated Responsibility (CRI) of Urology and Head of the Department of Surgery at ULS de Saúde de São José; Maria do Rosario Rodriguez de Barroscommunity nursing specialist and consultant at ULS in Alto Minho; Nuno FreitasGraduated in Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra, and postgraduate studies in Medical Law and Anaesthesiology; Paolo BarbosaChairman of the Board of Directors of ULS de Santo António in Porto; Ricardo Correa de Matos, a registered nurse specializing in mental health and psychiatric nursing and treasurer of the Nurses Union; that it Rosa Valiente de Matosformer Secretary of State for Health and Chairman of the Board of Directors of ULS de São José, in Lisbon.
In the order, the Ministry of Health claims that the implementation of this emergency plan, announced by Prime Minister Luis Montenegro during the government’s inauguration speech, “will only be possible if those who, on this day, on a daily basis, they intervene in the National Security Council, knowing its problems, participate.” And its challenges,” after they committed to presenting it in the first sixty days of the government.
The goal is to define guidelines “that allow for improved, timely access to health care, and to promote appropriate coordination with the various institutions of the Ministry of Health and their respective implementation.”
The task force will work under the responsibility of the Minister of Health and must submit a final report within 30 days.
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