The PS/Algarve accuses the PSD of “robbing the Algarve Local Health Unit to employ militants”, after the new Board of Directors, led by social democrat Tiago Botelho.
In a statement, the PS says that the current CA was “dismissed by email, without any reason or basis being given to support such a decision”.
“This is a clear example of partisan arrogance that disregards the personalities who served health in the Algarve with a spirit of mission and that subjugates the health of the Algarve people and the stability and independence of public institutions to partisan interests and the insatiable desire to employ PSD militants”, say the socialists.
Tiago Botelho, economist and PSD municipal deputy in Faro, took office today, October 31, as the new president of ULS/Algarve. He will be supported by names such as Ana Paula Fidalgo (clinical director of hospital health care) and Anabela Simões, as nursing director.
In this note sent to newsrooms, the PS/Algarve argues that “the administrations appointed by the Passos Coelho Government, for the Algarve Hospital Centre and for the Algarve Health Administration completed their mandates, regardless of whether they were extended during the period of government of António Costa's Socialist Party”.
“The Socialist Party respects the democratic principle of team mandates in each public body and has always sought to open its choices to independent personalities, including even personalities with other party preferences,” it also reads.
«This was the rule followed at the Algarve Hospital Centre, where the chairman of the board of directors, Dr. João Ferreira, has no connection to the Socialist Party, and is a professional hospital manager, to which we can add several examples, such as Professor Helena Leitão, appointed as a member of the board of directors by the University of Algarve itself, the financial director Patrícia Rego, a career professional at the ULS, and all the clinical directors who have served the hospitals in the Algarve over the last eight years: Dr. Mahomede Americano, Dr. Joaquim Pedro, Dr. Horácio Guerreiro and Dr. José Manuel Almeida», says the PS.
The PS Algarve federation also highlights «the competence and merit of all those who served the Algarve hospital centre, facing the Covid crisis, thanking the dedication of the teams led by Dr. João Ferreira, Dr. Ana Varges Gomes, Dr. Ana Paula Gonçalves and Dr. Joaquim Ramalho, and the role played by Dr. Paulo Neves, whose competence and spirit of mission is recognised by the various stakeholders in the health sector in the region, being indelibly linked to the opening of the new hospital in Terras do Infante, in Lagos, to the Oncology Reference Centre of the South, designed for Parque das Cidades and to the new operating theatre and surgical robotics that will allow the installation of new clinical specialties in the region».
The note ends with a barb aimed at the Social Democrats: «we also understand that, with this appointment, the PSD wants to allow the City Council's budget to be Faro this time have the favorable vote of your bench in the Municipal Assembly, but public institutions cannot be used for partisan games.”
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