The speech was "frankly encouraging" and the Minister of Health and the new administrators of the Algarve hospitals will be entitled to a "State of Grace", granted by the mayors of the Algarve.
Even so, the president of AMAL -Comunidade Intermunicipal do Algarve Jorge Botelho promises to be more attentive to what the member of Government will do, and not so much to what he says, and hopes that words will quickly turn into actions.
At the end of the presentation session of the new Board of Directors of the Algarve Hospital Center (CHA) and of the Algarve Health Plan, the mayor of Tavirense was satisfied with the assurances given by the minister, who was proposed to "solve most of the problems that are identified, in the SNS of the Algarve, by 31 May".
Now, he wants to see action, on the part of the tutelage, in order to solve the existing problems, namely the hospitals' inability to respond. "Today's speech was one of hope, but we want to see it associated with a practice," he warned. It was, moreover, the minister who asked them to look at what he does and not what he says, he recalled.
For now, he sees it as a good sign that the diagnosis made by Adalberto Campos Fernandes is in line with what the living forces and users in the region have been claiming for a long time. «Today it was admitted here that the Algarve has entered a phase of indescribable lack of answers. It was also assumed that the response fell a lot in relation to the country's standard, which is what we have always said», the AMAL president told reporters.
In the session and on the sidelines, the Health Minister made it clear that, for now, the solution will even have to involve the displacement of users from the Algarve to other health units, in Alentejo and Lisbon and Vale do Tejo, whenever the difficulties arise. from the CHA to this force. This is because, as Adalberto Campos Fernandes illustrated, "what has not been resolved in four years will not be resolved in four days", which means that the reinforcement of human resources, namely the hiring of more specialist doctors, may still take time.
This temporary solution does not bother Jorge Botelho. «The fact that I go to Lisbon or that other hospitals temporarily provide answers to the health services in the Algarve doesn't seem bad to me. What seems bad to me is that the services in the region do not have the capacity to respond, postpone consultations and surgeries, and send people home, with problems persisting», he said.
Already the "contingency plan" announced by the Government, which will be based on protocols signed this Friday, one between the ARS of Algarve, Alentejo and Lisbon and Vale do Tejo, and the other between hospital centers in Algarve and Lisbon Norte, competes to "solve the problems of the Algarve", in the short term, he believes.
In this way, they are created the conditions for the climate of peace that Adalberto Campos Fernandes wants to see installed in the health of the Algarve. «It seems to me that the coming times will be calm. (…) I think we must, now, give a margin of credibility and time», both to the minister and to the new administration of the CHA.
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