ULS even asked Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa’s intervention. Choice of administrations goes to the Health Minister’s purview.
Gadra d’Almeida spent only seven months as executive director of the National Health Service (NHS), but there were 9 administrations that dismissed, as the newspaper advances.
The situation even bothering both the managers of the local health units (ULS) that they ended up Communicate what happened to Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, addressing the president a petition by Gaia and Espinho doctors (hospitals in which he accumulated functions irregularly).
And the military surgeon was fast: according to the weekly, who had access to internal sources, the administrations of Uls Alto Alentejo, Lezíria and Leiria were faced in 2 days, and those of the Algarve, Viseu-Dão Lafões, Aveiro, Castelo Branco , Guarda and Almada Seixal were away in a 2 -minute phone call.
The justification was always the “change of management, natural in organizational leaders”, although in several of these units the administration had not been in office for a year and functions. No resignation was justified with technical motives.
Still, not everything in the administration of Gandra d’Almeida is criticized by the internal sources: they mention, for example, the continuity that gave the work of its predecessor, Fernando Araújo, regarding the consecration of the autonomy of hospitals. It is also referred to the improvement of the public care network or the rapid approval of the reference frame for the NHS.
Now, the Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martins, has already assured that the role of SNS executive director limited to coordinating the care networkbeing the responsibility of hiring to care for the central administration of the health system.
