Antônio Cotrim / LUSA
The Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martins
The SNS will make a loss of more than 217 million euros. Initially, the balance would be positive. Once the accounts are redone, this will not be the case, and the government blames the former Executive.
Six days after guaranteeing that the SNS balance for 2025 would be positive, the government announced yesterday that it will, after all, be negative.
The move to the “red zone” has two main reasons: on the one hand, revenue will be lowerand will increase from R$16,854.7 million to R$16,530 million. On the other hand, investment will increase, which will also reduce revenue.
According to , the initial document, the Government planned to spend 8,356 million euros and after redoing the accounts, this value jumps to 8,889 million euros. It’s a increase of more than 530 million euros.
The Executive blamed the previous government of António Costa for the “increase in expenditure that has not yet been fully quantified, due to the SNS reform initiated in 2024 with the extinction of Regional Health Administrations and creation of Local Health Units“.
Confusion is also justified in the former government — these changes meant that the increase in spending was not yet fully quantified, says the Executive.
Furthermore, points out, there will still be an increase in expenses with personnel and the acquisition of goods and services.
In OE 2025, generally approved about three weeks ago, an increase in health spending is already accounted for, largely to finance the SNS.
