The Government assured the PCP that the Regional Health Administration of the Algarve is working so that the municipality of Alcoutim can count on the services of one more doctor, who will help alleviate the problems raised by the absence of another clinic that worked in this municipality, from low since August 2015. Even so, the reopening of the Vaqueiros Health Extension will not take place yet.
In response to a question from the Communist Parliamentary Group about the Health Unit closed since 2013, the Government says that after a vacancy for this council, put up for competition, the ARS do Algarve, in the «expectation of solving the situation soon”, will place in this council “a doctor for mobility that intends to establish itself in Sotavento”.
The Ministry of Health added that on September 27, it was agreed at a meeting between the Municipality of Alcoutim and the Algarve's ARS that users of Vaqueiros will continue to travel to Martinlongo for now – “which is 8 kilometers away from this location. » – to have your queries.
«In the future, and when the staff is complete, we will consider and endeavor to start providing primary health care in the town of Vaqueiros if there are conditions, either in terms of information systems, namely network infrastructure and communication circuits , or at the level of other professional groups (nurses, technical assistants and operational assistants)», assured the Government.
This Health Extension closed in October 2013, decision of the previous governing cast which caused great controversy and which motivated a protest in Faro of users from Alcoutenejos and Castro-Marinenses, county where they also closed health units. At the time, the president of the Chamber of Alcoutim Osvaldo Gonçalves made itself available to carry out the necessary works for the Vaqueiros Health Extension to reopen as soon as possible.
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