The Parliamentary Group of the PCP questioned the Government about the urgent measures that the Ministry of Health will adopt to ensure that the Hospital Center of the Algarve (CHA) "provides, in a timely manner, to patients with multiple sclerosis the medicines they need".
Communist deputies recall that the Portuguese Society for Multiple Sclerosis denounced a situation of one of its members, with multiple sclerosis, who went to the Hospital of Portimão to collect the respective medication, having been informed that the medication was not available nor was it known when it would be. The Hospital de Portimão limited itself to providing the pharmacy telephone number so that the patient could be informed.
“The seriousness, for a person with multiple sclerosis, of the lack of medication that can result in the occurrence of an outbreak with serious consequences is well known. It is, therefore, unacceptable that the Hospital Center of the Algarve does not provide, in a timely manner, to patients with multiple sclerosis the medicines they need», stresses the PCP.
The lack of medication in the Hospitals of the Hospital Center of the Algarve has been denounced by users and health professionals alike.
The PCP had already warned, on several occasions, of the "serious consequences of the chronic underfunding of the Algarve's hospitals, resulting from an imposition of the troika and the Government's political option to disinvest in the National Health Service."
Therefore, the communists demand that hospitals Faro, Portimão and Lagos are «given adequate funding that allows the provision of quality health care».
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