Health with unfulfilled promises continues to worry mayors

Porto de Mos has achieved some victories, but “health is still a concern,” the city's mayor, Jorge Falla, argued during the recent municipal assembly.

Municipal deputies Felix dos Reis (PSD) and Cristina Rosa (PS) asked to evaluate the situation regarding issues of concern to local mayors – the need to create a second family health unit [USF] And the arrival of more doctors in the municipality – Jorge Valla admitted his concern that the agreement concluded with the Ministry of Health, within the scope of the transfer of competencies, is still partly incomplete, which means that some victories are, at the moment, only on paper.

The municipal official confirmed that, as was proposed in the last municipal council, he met with the person in charge of the recently created USF Aire e Candeeiros, and that he once again put a “crucial issue” on the table: “The municipality accepted the transfer of competencies because, as written in the signed agreement With the Ministry of Health, the process of creating a USF was underway with the aim of serving users of the Personal Healthcare Unit (UCSP) which would have its headquarters in Porto de Mos and two centres, one in Mira de Aire and the other in Cerro Ventoso. In contrast, it was decided that the Alcidao da Serra and Mendega units would continue to operate, but now as extensions of Porto de Mos and Cerro Vientoso, respectively. Finally, two SNS branches will be established in a pilot project at the headquarters of the Federation of Dioceses of Alvados and Alcaria and at the headquarters of the Diocesan Council of São Bento.”

“This was the protocol that we signed, and as the executive authority understands that whoever signed it is a good person and represents the government, even if this person does not become governor after that, I do not think that what is stated here will not be answered “within a short period of time. Soon.” , said the city mayor, adding that the recent response of the head of the Local Health Unit of the Leiria District (ULS Leiria) to the letter sent to him, “in his legitimate right” by the President of the Alcidao da Serra Parish Council, led him to believe that there was in fact an intention to comply.

According to the person in charge, the President of the Council, Felipe Baptista, in his letter, urgently requested the extension of Alcidao da Serra, “nursing care” and opening it, within a few days, to requests for prescriptions. “At this point there are no doctors yet, and if there are no doctors, the response must be a temporary one,” ULS President Leiria reported, committing, for the time being, to opening the health extension “two days a week” to meet what the local mayor requested on Specifically.

Regarding the arrival of more doctors to the municipality, Jorge Valla said that there had recently been a competition that stipulated the provision of 41 vacant positions for the municipalities of Pinhal Litoral (of which the municipality is a part), with only two positions being filled, specifically in Porto de. More, “Because it creates an expectation [a criação de uma segunda USF] “This has been achieved.”

“Our expectations and the expectations of the health professionals were to create a USF with all the expected doctors, which did not happen. Two more came, but we only have five,” said Jorge Falla, admitting his concern, on the other hand, about what he called “a certain group of health professionals.”

“From what I heard this week, US forces at Novus Horizons will lose a doctor to other US forces here in the region, and so, until we settle that issue, we will necessarily remain very, very concerned, because there are such calls here.” [para a saída de profissionais para outras unidades de saúde] It is legitimate for people to be able to leave, what is no longer fair is that they are placed here, they leave and then the place is not filled,” the mayor concludes, saying that this situation makes him “obviously concerned.”

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