Martins dos Santos, director of the General Surgery service at the University Hospital Center of the Algarve (CHUA), was dismissed from his post. O Sul Informação know that the new Board of Directors, led by Ana Castro, has not yet taken office, but is already having meetings, namely in the Regional Health Administration (ARS).
O Sul Informação I learned, from a hospital medical source, that, last Friday, the new administration met at the ARS Algarve for the transfer of files, even though formal possession has not yet taken place.
A statement this Sunday, July 19, from the Independent Trade Union of Doctors (SIM), signed by Jorge Salvador, CHUA's orthopedist and one of the union's representatives in the Algarve, confirms the resignation of Martins dos Santos.
"This dismissal should, at the very least, shame those who practiced it, as it proves to be out of time and exempt from any cowardice", accuses Jorge Salvador.
According to the doctor, this decision was "taken on the last day of the mandate of the Board of Directors" led by Ana Paula Gonçalves, at "21:27" last Thursday.
However, a hospital medical source told the Sul Informação that since that same Thursday night there are no surgeons at the Hospital de Faro.
The surgeries are being carried out in Portimão, which has even fewer professionals, since the surgeons in Faro…they all took sick leave. The situation is yet another example of the malaise that continues to be experienced in Algarve hospitals.
Despite having tried to clarify the issue, our newspaper was unable to establish whether the resignation of Martins dos Santos was the last act of the outgoing administration (led by Ana Paula Gonçalves) or the first of the new one, which will have as president Ana Castro from Lisbon.
Contacted by our newspaper about the resignation of Martins dos Santos, former director of the General Surgery Service of the Algarve hospitals and also former president of ARS/Algarve, CHUA only replied that there is, "since last Friday, a new board of directors is already working to find the best solutions to better serve our users."
In his statement released today by SIM, the doctor and unionist Jorge Salvador stresses that there has been “in recent times, an attempt to muzzle and silence the voices that, in a constructive way, call into question political decisions that, in the health, severely harm the region'.
"These people, instead of being used as an asset in the pursuit of structural strategic plans that can elevate public health and the hospitals that serve it to a higher level, are simply ignored or ostracized", adds the orthopedist.
The new chairman of CHUA's Board of Directors is, therefore, Ana Castro, a 43-year-old oncologist born in Lisbon who was assigned to the Central Administration of Health Services. Accompanying her will be Paulo Neves, former director of the Group Private Hospitals in Portugal and defeated candidate for the Chamber of Faro by PS in 2013, as executive member for the legal area.
Patrício Rego, a jurist who was until now the administrator of Hospital de Portimão, will be the other executive member, in this case, for the management area.
The new clinical director will be neurosurgeon Joaquim Pedro, current director of the Department of Neurosurgery at Hospital de Faro, and the head nurse will be Mariana Santos, who had already held the same position in 2006 at the then Hospital do Barlavento Algarvio, when Luís Batalau was director of this unit.
Regarding the Government's decision to nominate Ana Castro as chairman of the Board of Directors, physician Jorge Salvador, from SIM, says that, «for the exercise of leadership positions, human resources in the region have been passed over to the detriment of commissioners politicians (exotic birds) from other regions of the country, unaware of the specific problems of the Algarve and often with very dubious technical-scientific competence».
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