The Commission for Recruitment and Selection for Public Administration (CReSAP) today reopened the competition to choose the new director general of Health, one day after announcing its repetition due to the lack of three suitable candidates.
According to the `site´ of CReSAP, the deadline for submitting applications, within the scope of this urgent tender and which does not foresee the hearing of interested parties, closes within 13 days, on the 3rd of August.
On Thursday, CReSAP justified the repetition of the competition to choose the new director general, who is also the National Health Authority, with the lack of three candidates able to join the list to be presented to Minister of Health Manuel Pizarro.
In a reply sent to the Lusa agency, the entity presided over by Damasceno Dias said that, within the scope of the Statute of Management Personnel, when CReSAP «does not find three candidates able to integrate the `shortlist´ to be presented to the member of the Government who requested the opening of the tender procedure, this commission must proceed to repeat the notice of its opening».
«This was the situation that occurred in the aforementioned competition» for the choice of Graça Freitas's replacement for the leadership of the Directorate-General for Health (DGS), advanced the recruitment committee.
According to the rules of CReSAP, after conclusion of the selection process, the jury prepares a designation proposal indicating three candidates, with the reasons for choosing each one, and presents it to the member of the Government in charge of the service, who has, from this moment, a maximum period of 45 days to make the choice.
The initial notice of the opening of the competition had been published in Diário da República in early June, days after the resignation of the then Deputy Director-General of Health, Rui Portugal, who was replacing the Director-General of Health during the holidays, and six months after Graça Freitas had publicly announced that she intended to step down.
Despite Graça Freitas having announced in December her intention of not remaining in the position, the Ministry of Health only sent the request to CReSAP in early May to open a public tender.
Days after Rui Portugal resigned, public health doctor André Peralta Santos was appointed Deputy Director General of Health, on a replacement basis.
In an interview with the Público newspaper in February, Rui Portugal expressed his willingness to submit an application to CReSAP.
At the end of June, Pedro Melo, specialist in community nursing and professor at the Catholic University, and Carla Araújo, specialist in internal medicine, announced their candidacies for the post.
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