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BARDS to the service counters and prevented from inscribed in the NHS. Attitude of health centers with foreign pregnant women can “damage the seriousness of the Portuguese legal system”.
The Observatory of Obstetric Violence (Egg PT) released, this Monday, cases of pregnant immigrants prevented from accessing the care of the NHS, and situations in which the health centers security ones themselves bar in this service.
In a statement to which it had access, the observatory explains with “deep concern” that some women report to be “Physically prevented” from accessing the service counter to register in health centers and thus be able to follow up on pregnancy.
The Egg PT takes the opportunity to warn of the new approved on December 19, which rejects non -regular foreigners to access the NHS. The Observatory says that the law will “exclude immigrants whose validity of the residence authorization is over, leaving many residents without health care. ”
At issue is a arrival proposal that suggests that foreigners, stateless and migrants without legalized situation have to pay for health services, except in emergency situations. AD also proposes that these women are required to present a care coverage.
The change to the Health Bases Law was approved with votes in favor of the PSD, CDS-PP and arrives and against the PS, liberal initiative, BE, PCP and Free.
Currently, what prevails in the law is that “All have access to NHS“. “Also foreign persons requesting international protection – as well as their families – and migrants with or without their legalized situation, under the applicable legal regime, are entitled to access to NHS,” recalls the egg.
That is, the cases exposed by the organization “report situations of violation of the law and that the lack of sanctions harms seriousness of the Portuguese legal system“.
The Observatory believes that the new law presents “a clear discrimination in access to healthviolating the principles of universal health and access to health, increasing the risk of maternal and child mortality for foreign/immigrant populations. ”
