The director of emergencies at the Portimão Hospital in Algarve has been pregnant and low for several months, but will continue to consult the private clinic that belongs to the father, guarantees CNN Portugal/TVI.
The station found that the MEDICAL MARIA INÊS SIMÃO will continue to work in Mediarade Clinic which is the property of the father, despite being of low medical.
The Algarve local health unit confirmed that Maria Inês Simões is “in a situation of Temporary disability for work since 18/09/2024“.
But a TVI journalist called the private clinic and managed to make an appointment with the doctor.
In the first contact, they told him that, as the doctor is almost being a mother, the marking would have to be accepted by herself, as the channel reports.
But the same afternoon the contact was made, TVI says it has received confirmation of the marking.
However, the doctor denies, highlighting the channel that is “maternity leave”. “My father has a private clinic, but I have not been receiving absolutely nothing“Maria Inês Simões further.
Following the release of the report, TVI ensures that it received a message from the clinic informing the following: “We tried to contact her after the time of marking at Medarade, at ten o’clock, with Dr. Joana Martins, in order to confirm her presence ”.
In recent weeks, the doctor showed on social networksin the clinic of the father, pregnant and working, still according to the same channel.
Case of the doctor reported to Social Security (and filed)
To confirm the information, is “a state fraud“As the lawyer Paulo Veiga and Moura highlights.
“If you have a risk pregnancy or if you are low, it is because you are unable to work” and if someone “is unable to work in INEM, it is unable to work in any other site“The lawyer stresses.
TVI also notes that the case of the doctor was denounced to social securitywhich will have filed the complaint for lack of information and evidence.
A complaint to the Public Prosecution Service.
The doctor is also INEM trainer (National Institute of Medical Emergency) and will continue to participate in the formations, notes TVI.
Maria Inês Simões was decorated by the President of the Republic after integrating the INEM team that went to Türkiye, in a mission of assistance, after the earthquake of 2023. This team was chosen by GANDRA DE ALMEIDA which recently resigned from the Directorate of the National Health Service by.