“sNearly 10 thousand users do not have a family doctor in the municipality of Abrantes, and have faced alternatives, such as, for example, hiring medical hours and/or retired and foreign doctors, the refusal of professionals to work under the conditions offered, said Manuel José Soares, spokesman for CUSMT. “And the complex bureaucracy and government regulation,” he told reporters, outside the Alferrade Health Centre, where there are about six thousand employees without a family doctor appointment, after the retirement of five professionals who worked there in the past two years. .
CUSMT, which operates in the 11 municipalities covered by the Centro Hospitalar do Médio Tejo (CHMT) and in the Cluster of Health Centers (ACES) in the same area, in the department of Santarém, and which today is represented by dozens of directors, formulated this claim within the scope of the 44-year-old National Health Service (SNS). ), “The most important from a social and humanitarian perspective are public services.”
“The importance of defending and strengthening social networking services is a battle fought by all and for everyone, which involves, among other aspects, the focus on health and disease prevention, the need to strengthen and modernize social networking services, and investing in improving organization and operation,” Guidance and Management SNS and its professionals, as a condition for the economic and social development of the country,” stated Manuel Soares.
For the user representative, “defending SNS means highlighting that in the Central Tagus, despite all the difficulties, there are more than 5,000 health sector workers, who carry out, for example, an average of 435 emergencies per day, and 4,000 emergencies per day.” . Daily consultations in hospitals and health centers, more than 30 daily surgical interventions, nearly 50 daily dialysis sessions, thousands of examinations and analyses, treatments and nursing work, transportation and mental and physical recovery for hundreds of patients, and health awareness work for the public sector, among other things, Having then listed the CUSMT requirements for the sector.
“Strengthening the SNS means demanding, by all democratic means, among other measures, a solution to the problems of access to healthcare for many users” in Médio Tejo, where he pointed out “nearly 35%, i.e. 77,769 of the total 225,691 registered users did not receive any consultation in the last 12 months,” along with the recruitment of more health professionals, with working conditions and salaries consistent with their training,” a requirement he defended as “expandable to meet the national need for increased wages and benefits.”
CUSMT, in the document presented at the session, also calls for investment in “effective and measurable preventive public health measures”, with regard to road accidents, tobacco consumption, alcohol and obesity, along with “compliance with the principle of proximity in the provision of health care, and not abandoning the population.” Rural parishes”, keeping health facilities open and using mobile health units.
In a long list of alerts, claims and demands, one criticism remained of the recent announcement of the award of the contract for the rehabilitation of the medical-surgical emergency department facilities at Hospital de Abrantes, a project that had been announced for a long time and the delay of which resulted in an increase in the value of the work by “plus approximately 700 thousand euros.” » and «No punishment for officials», after referring to the Ministry of Finance.
The Commission, which ensured the continuation of “the struggle to valorize emergency services”, also pointed out the need to “improve the humanization and organization of emergency services”, along with “information and communication with users and families”, defending the performance of emergency services. Maternity ward at CHMT, in Abrantes, “24 hours a day, seven days a week”, the opening of the “pediatric emergency department in the three hospitals” at CHMT, “instead of just being in Torres Novas”, and “physical development and rehabilitation” in Tomar Hospital.
“There is a need for more Community Care Units (CCU) as well as renewal of the health units’ vehicle fleet and coordination of care delivery, especially with social institutions, as there are many elderly people in the area…” added Manuel Soares, after concluding by saying that “ Defending and strengthening social networking services means more information, organizing users and workers, and taking consistent and lasting action.”
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