This one, it was time. The deputy clinical director of the Centro Hospitalar do Algarve and three department directors of the Algarve hospitals resigned, considering that there was a lack of “visible and motivating strategic guidance” in the region's hospital units. this decision was taken days after the approval of the CHA's internal regulations, which is causing controversy.
The four clinicians submitted their resignations in December 2016, agreed to withdraw them after a meeting with the Minister of Health and following the guarantees given to them, but ended up giving up waiting for the promised changes, according to Jornal Público. .
Speaking to the daily newspaper, Ana Lopes, assistant to the clinical director, said that "nothing has changed" since she and the outgoing department directors met with Adalberto Campos Fernandes. “There is no longer any reason for us to continue to assume the functions we occupied. For five years there has been no investment in the purchase of equipment at the Algarve Hospital Center, which continues to show poor results, both in terms of care and in terms of waiting time», said Ana Lopes, to Público.
Contacted by Sul Informação, the CHA confirmed that the four clinicians "came out of the position of Department Director and Assistant to the Clinical Director on February 13, and these positions correspond to functions of intermediate heads that, until new appointments, are assumed by the Clinical Director" .
The Board of Directors of the Algarve hospitals added that "these elements are doctors and service directors of CHAlgarve who remain in full exercise of their functions, having submitted their resignation only to the positions of advising the clinical director and department directors."
«The Algarve Hospital Center is in the process of reorganizing its internal structure, due to the ratification of the Internal Regulation on February 7th. recently resigned”, concluded the CHA.
As for the dismissal of doctors from the leading positions they occupied, the managers of the Algarve hospitals recalled that the original request for dismissal dates from 19 December, "there being no new facts to comment at this time".
The CHA does not comment, but the PSD deputies elected by the Algarve circle Cristóvão Norte and José Carlos Barros, who in December they had drawn attention to the situation., have already urged the minister of Health to speak out and present explanations to the Assembly of the Republic on "what were the commitments that the ministry did not fulfill and that led the resigners to carry out their resignations".
The Social Democratic parliamentarians also want to know “why the impasse remains in defining the model for hospital care in the region and whether the internal regulation, which did not exist for 10 months, and has now been approved, was built in dialogue with human resources and what vision it translates to the institution».
“It is time for the Government to make decisions about the CHA. The impasse and uncertainty affect the institution and the health care provided, which was reduced in 2016. This trend has to be reversed. Yes, more resources are needed, but also better organization. The Government must do its part. We hope so», illustrated Cristóvão Norte.
Adalberto Campos Fernandes has not yet clarified the PSD deputies, but he assured Público that the internal regulation, which is being challenged by many physicians for providing, among other measures, for the creation of clinical sub-directors «goes in line with what reading is all about technical needs of the Algarve, but also the expectations of the population and the professionals themselves».
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