The proposed State Budget for 2019 foresees less 19 million euros for the University Hospital Center of the Algarve (CHUA).
The situation is denounced by Cristóvão Norte, Algarvian deputy of the PSD, who also reveals that the waiting times for a consultation, at CHUA, "reach up to four years".
“What's the point of having someone else 5, 10 or 15 euros a month if, when you need an appointment. do you have to go to the private sector, pay what you don't have, borrow or give up access to health care?”. This was the question from Cristóvão Norte to Marta Temido, the new minister of Health.
The deputy, in the question to the government official, considered that “the main indicators are worse: more 103% of complaints, a significant drop in clinical production that is verified year after year and an increase in waiting times for consultations. What does the Government do? It reduces the budget by 19 million, it does not have a decisive policy of fixing human resources and the new hospital in the Algarve – second priority at national level set by order – is left out when, once again, five new hospitals are announced».
According to the parliamentarian, the waiting time for consultation for dentistry at the Hospital de Faro, it is fixed at 2 years and 3 months, and for orthopedics, in the same hospital, it is at 4 years and 4 months. Finally, in urology, the waiting time is 2 years, at the Hospital de Portimão, and 3 years and 3 months, in Faro, according to Christopher North.
«The Algarve has chronic health problems, it needs to be a priority at the national level, the population increases, so do visitors, but the answers are scarce», he considers.
According to the Government's proposal, there will also be a reduction of 2,2 million euros in medicines and 1 million in consumption of clinical material, among others.
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