José Apolinário, president of the Algarve Regional Coordination and Development Commission (CCDR), welcomes the decision of the National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM) to maintain the aeromedical response capacity in guaranteed readiness.
In a note, the CCDR Algarve reinforces that INEM will maintain the helicopter from the Loulé helicopter base in permanent operation, «by the way, the helicopter that registers the greatest activity at national level given the referral distance for patients to the south of the country – 3 hours away from Lisbon by road, and to emergency and Civil Protection situations in the Region».
At the same time, the CCDR wishes that in 2024 the investment and entry into operation of new technological equipment in the current University Hospital Center will continue, which will join those already supported with financing from European Funds managed in the Region, and should enter into operation in February the new Nuclear Medicine Service of the Algarve Local Health Unit.
Even so, the great expectation in this year of 2024 and which the region awaits is the publication of the Public Procedure for the launch of the public-private partnership for the construction of the new Algarve Central Hospital, «a commitment that we invite and urge the various political forces to assume as priority in the elections scheduled for March 10th», the note reads.
Community funding secured for a differentiated response in the area of oncology, on land already provided by the Association of Municipalities Loulé-Faro and execution projects already tendered, CCDR also expects that the year 2024 will also be the year of the necessary hiring decisions for the implementation of the Southern Reference Oncology Center.
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