The postponement of the construction of the new Central Hospital of the Algarve, when the State Budget for 2018 foresees the construction of four new hospitals in the country, "is a serious and irreparable injustice", defended Cristóvão Norte, deputy of the PSD elected by the Algarve, in the debate the budget in the health specialty, which took the minister of health to the Assembly of the Republic on Monday.
The Algarve parliamentarian confronted Adalberto Campos Fernandes with the fact that the Government was preparing to move forward with the construction of hospitals in Lisbon, Seixal, Évora and Sintra, when "a technical study whose result was transferred to an ordinance", prepared in 2006, included a new hospital in the Algarve “in second place” on the list of priorities.
«The first stone was even thrown, on more than one occasion. From that moment on, it was known that when new hospitals were built, this order would be respected. The Government broke that consensus», accused Cristóvão Norte.
Of the hospitals that are inscribed in the 2018 State Budget, two, those in Seixal and Évora, «were classified behind the Algarve and Sintra was not included in the order of 2006 and was not even the object of study».
For the PSD deputy, the decision is “deeply antagonistic to the proclamations that health in the Algarve is at the top of concerns and in rupture with the fact that the Algarve is the region with the greatest shortage of doctors, fewer surgeries, fewer consultations and, chronically, , with the worst health indices at national level, which is not new, but there has been no improvement».
According to the PSD, the minister of Health sent the construction of the Hospital Central do Algarve «for a later date, despite not having given any justification for the decision to exclude the new Hospital do Algarve from the list of priorities».
The Social Democrats even present a list of reasons why this postponement is harmful to the Algarve, which include the inability of the Algarve hospitals "to attract and secure human resources", the effects on the teaching of Medicine at the University of Algarve and by the inability of the current hospitals to respond in a region "with accelerated population growth" and "a notorious tourist evolution".
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