The Portuguese Nurses Union (SEP) says that Pedro Passos Coelho found the Hospital of Faro «as he left it» and that the criticisms he addressed to the current Government also “serve” to what the PSD president led between 2011 and 2015.
One day later the visit of the former prime minister to the Hospital of Faro, where he met the SEP representative in the Algarve, the union members react to the statements of Passos Coelho, who told journalists that the situation at this health unit has worsened since António Costa went to São Bento, and that "there is a rhetoric that does not match reality" regarding the An investment of 19 million euros has been announced in the Centro Hospitalar do Algarve, which has not yet been made.
The PSD leader also recalled the "increase in waiting times and difficulties in responding to requests in the area of surgery and other specialties, which leads to people moving to the private sector or being transferred to other public units."
«The SEP questions whether Pedro Passos Coelho is referring to the current Government or to himself, since all the flaws he has now identified already existed at the time he governed without having resolved them, on the contrary, he aggravated them », accused the unionists.
«The SEP also reminds that if there were “savings” in Health, it was at the expense of cuts in salaries and rights of professionals and the health of users who saw the response to their needs very limited. It's necessary to have can!», concluded the regional delegation of the Union of nurses.
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