The PSD Algarve wants the Government to take «prompt measures» to correct a «set of disturbing episodes regarding health in the Algarve», such as «serious failures in the emergency department of hospitals in Faro and Portimão», in various services, and lack of doctors on call in the Basic Emergency Service of Albufeira and Loulé.
The PS, for its part, says that it was due to the options of the PSD/CDS-PP Government, led by Pedro Passos Coelho, that «the problems became more acute and the difficulties aggravated, and it was not humanly possible to revert in one day what was dismantled. and destroyed for four and a half years».
In a note sent to the editorial staff, the PSD says that "there are proven records" of the failures and "to this is added the Hospital Center of the Algarve has been operating for more than five months without directors of clinical departments to be appointed, after the resignation of the previous ones. ».
The Social Democrats denounce that “in the summer, with triple the number of citizens to look after, the Algarve has fewer resources and services than in the winter”.
The PSD recalls that in March 2016, when the Board of Directors of Centro Hospitalar do Algarve took office, a commitment was made to «solve most of the problems that are identified in the Algarve's NHS by 31 May». "Not in 2016, not in 2017," say the Social Democrats.
The biggest opposition party says that there are now “worse indicators, more waiting time in emergencies and for consultations, fewer surgeries performed, fewer first appointments, more users admitted to emergency rooms, and the region and its citizens are more dependent on Lisbon's hospitals and, therefore, more unprotected and with less access to health».
The PSD assumes, however, “that the Algarve has structural problems in this domain. The first, and without which nothing can be resolved, is the chronic shortage of doctors, for which legislative measures are required».
On the other hand, consider the social democrats, «the Algarve lacks a new central hospital», and «the Government has demoted the Algarve in the list of priorities established in 2006. The Algarve was in second place and four hospitals were registered in the State budget, none of them being the Algarve's».
The PS assumes, also in a note sent to the newsrooms, problems in the health of the Algarve, but with regard to the "historical problem" of the lack of doctors, it claims that the "policy of PSD/CDS-PP governance has further aggravated the situation, with salary cuts, cuts in overtime and the increase in labor conflicts that led many doctors, particularly the more experienced ones, to abandon the Algarve Hospital Center for other health units of the NHS itself and for the private activity that, in our region , grew exponentially».
Socialists say that "the difficulty in attracting new doctors was added to the desire to leave many of those who worked here in the face of the ineptitude of the right-wing government."
The PS recalls that "the bleeding of human resources led to the loss of training suitability, in general surgery and orthopedics, creating even greater difficulties in securing new professionals."
As for the tenders opened by the Regional Health Administration of the Algarve, the socialists continue, «they were invariably deserted, without any doctor wanting to come to work in the south of the country, both in hospitals and in primary health care, where the rate of users without a family doctor reached 70% in some municipalities in the Barlavento Algarve».
PS Algarve believes that «the new hospital management model, the University Hospital Center of the Algarve, granting greater autonomy in operational and clinical management to each of the hospital poles, will overcome some of the difficulties that we still experience today».
However, continue the socialists, "we have no doubts that it will take several years to restore the quality of the National Health Service to the levels we want and that the Algarve deserve".
Regarding the criticisms of the Social Democrats, the Socialists say they do not accept “that the PSD does evil and the acorn, that is, those who now come to the newspapers to complain about the lack of health professionals, are the same ones who pushed the doctors out of hospitals in the Algarve, out of the National Health Service, increasing the response capacity of private hospitals in our region», concludes the statement.
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