PS candidates meet with the management of the local health unit in the Algarve

Hundreds of patients will no longer have to travel to Lisbon for medical treatment, and will have access to the new nuclear medicine service already installed at the Barlavento Hospital, in Portimão, at the beginning of March.

The good news, which was awaiting an import permit for radioactive sources by the Portuguese Environment Agency, was announced by the management of the local health unit of the Algarve during a meeting with Socialist Party candidates for the upcoming legislative elections.

“Our fight has been to improve quality and increase medical differentiation in the Algarve. The commissioning of the Nuclear Medicine Unit in the region and the development of the Oncology Reference Unit in Faro, for which we already have community funding secured in the Algarve Operational Program, are two good examples of the valorization of the National Health Service,” said Jamila Madeira. , whose goal is, whenever possible, to treat people in the Algarve region in the region.

“The truth talks about health systems, but what they want is to transfer public resources to the private sector and 'check the wallet' of every Portuguese person. We want good health care for everyone. We have not given up on improving the National Health Service, which is universal and tends to be free, which is the greatest A collective achievement for Portugal in April.

Over the past four years, the PS Government, using community funds, has invested around €28 million in new technologies and cutting-edge equipment that have attracted new medical teams and led to the creation of new hospital responses, which previously did not exist, such as vascular surgery, pediatric surgery, and Outpatient Ophthalmology, Interventional Neuroradiology/Stroke, and this year, Medically Assisted Reproduction, which has been joined by the Center for Clinical Simulation, an essential response to research and teaching in the clinical and surgical field, but also to attract new health professionals. By summer, an additional 9 million euros will be contracted through PRR for the acquisition of surgical robots for various specialties, as well as the renewal of heavy medical equipment in the field of imaging and clinical research.

“We have recruited more than 500 healthcare professionals, 75 of whom are doctors. We have opened the new Hospital das Terras do Infante in Lagos, with two dedicated ophthalmology operating rooms combatting waiting lists throughout the Algarve region. We have increased the number of students in Faculty of Medicine of the Algarve, and if the Legislature does not interrupt again, this semester we will launch the international competition for the new Central Hospital, the new care portfolio of which has already been completed, after “works in progress. A region-wide course in the construction of new health centers and their technological re-equipment with a total value of more than 50 million euros,” concluded the head of the list of the Socialist Party of the Algarve region at the end of the meeting with the Board of Directors of the new Local Health Unit of the West.