The creator of the National Health Service (SNS) António Arnaut was distinguished with the Grand Cross of the Order of Liberty, granted by the President of the Republic, but in the meantime, in the Algarve, «the shameless attempt to destroy the NHS», he accused this tuesday the Independent Union of Doctors (SIM) Algarve.
At the heart of this criticism is the «attitude taken by ARS Algarve, which established contracts with private hospitals to provide healthcare in the area of Orthopedics».
“The ARS was not concerned with hiring orthopedists to guarantee and reinforce the respective services in public hospitals, but decided to squander taxpayers' money for private entities. The 4 million that, annually in the region, are transferred from public hospitals to private ones is no longer enough», defended the union.
For SIM/Algarve, this measure contributes “to the exit of more orthopedists from public hospitals in the region, thus colluding in the destruction of a reference service and the destruction of the NHS”.
he algarvian doctors warn that this measure will call into question the training capacity of the Orthopedics service, "which with these measures will no longer have doctors in training".
«It is also not understood the true reasons of the ARS when the Orthopedics service presented a proposal for a solution, only with recourse to the NHS and in order to guarantee the functioning of Orthopedics in the Hospital of Faro and was rejected outright», they accuse.
"These detached and stray measures do not solve the fundamental problem, lack of orthopedists, because in a month the scenario will continue claiming the beginning of summer, when the correct and indispensable attitude is the restructuring of the Orthopedics service, with the coming of more professionals», he concluded.
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