"We are going to do everything possible and impossible so that, in this legislature, the work of the new Hospital Central do Algarve advances", he assured yesterday to Sul Informação Paulo Morgado, President of the Regional Health Administration of the Algarve.
The head of the National Health Service management in the Algarve region promised "news for the Algarve in 2020, and good news" regarding the new hospital, on the same day that Health Minister Marta Temido assured that this infrastructure will start to be executed in 2021.
In exclusive statements to the Sul Informação, Paulo Morgado revealed that the entity he directs has been working «for a long time» on the project for the Hospital Central do Algarve.
“Until things are public, there is a lot of technical work to be done. At this moment, this technical work is already being done and will continue to be done in 2020, so that it is possible, this year, to present a calendar with a reasonable level of certainty for the development of the process», he said.
“There is a project and studies that are about ten years old, which have to be updated. Reality and needs have changed, so this work will have to be done. It is this technical work and the definition, more political, of the model of adjudication and development of the process, which has yet to be implemented», explained Paulo Morgado.
The president of the ARS also pointed out that the construction of the Hospital do Algarve is foreseen in the Great Options of the Plan for 2020, «on page 212».
In fact, it can be read in this strategic document that the Government will “promote the modernization of the NHS care provision equipment, implementing the ongoing projects, namely the new hospitals (Hospital Lisboa Oriental, Hospital Central do Alentejo, Hospitals de Proximidade de Sintra and Seixal, Funchal Hospital, Algarve Hospital), and assessing future needs».
Yesterday, the minister of Health had assured journalists, on the sidelines of the ceremony to honor and attribute the name of the now deceased doctor Manuel Santos Serra to the Albufeira Health Center, that the process of the new hospital is really going to go forward and already in 2021.
“Here in the Algarve, where a new infrastructure has been announced for so many years, in 2020, we have to plan, so that in 2021 we can start implementing it,” said Marta Temido.
However, the government official stressed that, for the time being, studies and the definition of the different technical aspects related to the project and the launch of the work are at stake, not putting forward a forecast for the start of the work.
“As everyone knows, owning a new hospital takes a lot of time – almost as much as training a health professional, sometimes longer. We want to have that answer in the shortest possible time. But these are not easy things and we are working», said Marta Temido.
As for interventions in the units of the University Hospital Center of the Algarve (CHUA), the minister assured that there is "an improvement plan for the NHS responses", namely in infrastructure, including in the Algarve.
Marta Temido clarified doubts about the 19 million euros that the Government promised to invest in CHUA, between 2017 and 2019 - "this is a question I am often asked" - revealing that, of this amount, "more than half was from fact, carried out'.
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