Middle Tagus users demand more and better health care

And theAt a press conference, CUSMT spokesperson Manuel José Soares, in addition to reiterating the need to value the maternity and obstetric services at Abrantes Hospital, which is associated with Centro Hospitalar do Médio Tejo (CHMT), defended that it was high time that the CHMT Board of Directors and the Department of Health The regional in Lisbon and the Vale do Tejo publicly offer a minimum feasible schedule for work in a medical-surgical emergency “in Abrantes (Santarim).

According to Manuel Soares, after numerous announcements and presentations, in 2019, CHMT planned investments of about 6.5 million euros, “with an expansion of the emergency medical-surgical budget by about 1.5 million euros.

Now, after these years, “what is required is that the schedule for carrying out the works in the hospital emergency room be made public, for better service of the population, better conditions for professionals and for the valorization of the national health service,” he said.

At the press conference, the Users Committee also addressed the issue of the Abrantes maternity hospital, which today operates “intermittently”.

“There are those who are thinking again about the possibility of closing some of them [maternidades]And the [nós] We once again declare the need to value maternity, ensuring that it operates 24 hours a day / seven days a week”, defended Manuel Soares.

Regarding primary health care, Manuel Soares stressed that the Tigo Health Center Intermediate Group (ACES) has a shortfall of 30 family physicians for about 50,000 users, among the 225,000 citizens registered with ACES.

“We do not confuse primary health care with medical care, and therefore we say that human resources are deficient [não só médicos] and ways to enhance preventative health and close care measures,” he said, calling for the creation of “more community care units” (UCC), as well as improvements in the organization.

Also according to Manuel Soares, “For the last national competition, 22 vacancies were requested. [para médicos de família]12 were allocated and only five were filled.

He defended “the necessity of taking exceptional measures to ensure close medical care, reflection and the involvement of all entities in preparing a lasting solution that respects the population and the legitimate aspirations of professionals.”

A spokesperson for the US Economic and Social Union also told Lusa that the commission “will send a document to the Council of the Republic so that, in connection with the 2023 state budget, measures of affirmative action will be adopted in the allocation of more financial resources, in the simplification of administrative processes for the employment of workers and the organization and interdependence of all areas of the National Health Service.

He stressed that “it is not enough to provide budgets with financial resources, but it is also necessary to speed up projects, pay attention to their implementation in the year of their allocation, and make management effective and efficient in every health unit.”

The CHMT brings together hospital units in Abrantes, Tomar and Torres Novas, in a complementary equivalency system.

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