The chairman of the Board of Directors of Centro Hospitalar do Algarve Pedro Nunes has "ticks of authoritarianism" and takes "dictatorial decisions", accused the president of the Southern Regional Council of the Medical Association Jaime Teixeira Mendes.
The OM leader was in Faro for welcome inmates who started their training in Algarve health units, in January, and took the opportunity to make strong criticisms of the CHA administration, which he hopes will not remain "for a long time".
«What awaits you, for those who will enter hospital specialties and or for those who, in their ordinary year, will go through hospital services, is a tense environment, of doctors who seek to do their work with quality, but often betrayed by the guidelines of the administration, which we consider to have performed its functions disastrously and have even violated basic standards of our profession," he said.
Jaime Mendes assured the young doctors that their move to the Algarve means that, «especially in the months when tourist pressure is lower, they will be living in paradise».
But, "when it comes to health services, particularly hospitals, the case completely changes its picture, especially for a few years now", taking into account "the management crisis" that is considered to be living in the CHA, which "has led to many doctors abandoning him."
The president of the Southern Regional Council of the OM assured the inmates that the only "chaotic situation" in the hospitals was not established because of "the older colleagues", who are "very trained doctors, sometimes exhausted by work, but competent".
In addition to pointing the finger at Pedro Nunes' administration, the OM leader also harshly criticized the creation of the Centro Hospitalar do Algarve, which it does not recognize «not even a virtue». The Medical Association defends, moreover, "the reversal of this measure" and the return to the previous model, in which the management of the Hospital de Faro it was separate from those of Portimão and Lagos.
“I have never heard of a case in the world in which two hospitals that are 60 kilometers apart were joined. Furthermore, with the roads that exist in the Algarve, especially if it is necessary to use the EN125», he considered.
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