The government declined the last request for extraordinary support made by the institution to the Social Rescue Fund. “The situation is very dangerous because it can lead to the closing” of the rare, said the president of the association in an interview with SIC.
A It is at risk of closing doors due to financial difficulties. In an interview with SIC, President Fernando Ferreira Alves recalls that the institution is the only home in the country dedicated to people with mental and rare disabilities.
The government refused the last request for extraordinary support made by the institution to the Social Relief Fund in July, worth over one million euros. It was already the eighth request.
“We were not waiting,” said the president of, ensuring that management “has done everything to try to solve it and receive the money.”
“The situation is very dangerous because it can lead to closing.”
The support would be intended to pay overdue subsidies to more than 100 employees and the maintenance of the normal functioning of the association.
A, the Ministry of Labor, Solidarity and Social Security explains that the restructuring plan presented gives no guarantees of financial balance.
The government argues that the transfer of this support from the Social Rescue Fund would undermine the function of the mechanism, which is to take on the IPSS emergency situations.
At least 39 people with rare diseases live on rare in hospitalization in a continuing care unit. Now the risk of running out of any support or ceiling are now.
