The unions belonging to the UGT (General Union of Workers)/Algarve are «indignant» with the fact that cancer patients in the region have been, since October, to go to Seville to receive radiosurgery treatments.
In a press release, UGT/Algarve adds that it will request a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Algarve, «in the sense of dialoguing and trying to understand whether the award of treatments can still be reversed and until when can cancer patients have to travel to Spain in a situation that does not serve the interests of the population of the Algarve».
This situation has been happening since October, like the Sul Informação reported.
At the time, the Board of Directors of the Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Algarve clarified that radiotherapy and radiosurgery are “very different” treatments, starting with the fact that radiosurgery involves “a single journey for the patient”.
«There was a contest, Spain won, legally, and we have to comply with the conditions of that contest», Horácio Guerreiro, clinical director, explained to our newspaper.
For his part, Daniel Santana, president of the District Union of Unions of UGT, says that he contacted the Associação Oncológica do Algarve (AOA) «which conveyed its repudiation for the way in which the CHUA conducted the entire tender process, which came to attribute those oncological treatments to a Spanish entity'.
«This situation is even more incomprehensible, since, according to what the AOA transmitted to the Unions, the Radioncology Clinic of the Algarve, in Faro, has the same – or even better – conditions and sophisticated technology to treat the population of the Algarve», concludes UGT.
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