The former Minister of Health, Leonor Belleza, considered the night of September 3, Saturday, that there was a “great distrust” of the Ministry of Finance regarding the Ministry of Health, even pointing to a “very unfair control” on its part. Department supervised by Fernando Medina.
At the last dinner conference for the 18th edition of PSD Summer University, which ends on Sunday in Castelo de Vide (Portalegre), Leonor Belleza never mentioned the resignation of the Minister of Health, Marta Temido, but advocated for structural changes in the sector.
“The number of doctors and nurses and the budget allocated to the social media system is increasing [Serviço Nacional de Saúde]. There is something in all of this that is not working well and needs such repairs which are not cosmetic repairs. It’s not about putting more money and more professionals in there, it doesn’t solve the problem, there is a productivity problem,” he defended.
Without questioning the need for strict financial control mechanisms in state services, former Minister Cavaco Silva (between 1985 and 1990) considered that there was “interference beyond what is easy to accept” by the Ministry of Finance.
Specifically, State Counsellor Leonor Belleza stressed that in the recent law of the National Health Service, in the framework of the regulation process, the annual activity plan and budget of each hospital are expected to be approved by the Minister of Finance. .
“Not by the Minister of Health, not by the intervention of the Minister of Health, it is by the Minister of Finance.” […] Perhaps it would be useful to understand how the control ends up, not in formal rhetoric, but in practice, the financial part in the provision of health care,” he said.
For the president of the Champalimaud Foundation also, “there is some aberration in the way the need for control ought to be seen.”
“Above all, there is one thing: there is a massive mistrust on the part of the Ministry of Finance regarding what the Ministry of Health is doing. Everyone knows that this mistrust exists, and I don’t know if everyone knows what and warned of how comprehensive and very invasive oversight is.”
In her “chapter” to the Young Social Democrats, Leonor Belleza presented figures indicating increased funding by private health care providers and in providing the same care to users, arguing that the practice partially contradicts what is written in the current primary. Health law.
“There is a weight that cannot and should not be forgotten with regard to private financing of health care, even though the constitution states that we tend to provide free health services,” he said, despite considering that the current constitutional provision on health need not be revised.
Leonor Belleza lamented the termination of some of the public-private partnerships in the health sector that “have worked”, highlighted the “enormous impact” of the 40- to 35-hour reduction in the sector and advised decision makers to be more interested in thinking “how Portugal can create More wealth than knowing where to spend it.”
“Our problem is how our country becomes richer […] Let’s stop thinking that we are only happy when the money comes in,” he pleaded.
At the end of the dinner, a video was broadcast with old testimonies from some of the former PSD leaders in honor of the Rector of the Summer University, former MEP Carlos Coelho, in which the students enthusiastically praised Pedro Passos Coelho’s recorded words.
