The new SNS executive director, António Gandra d’Almeida
Inspection-General for Health Activities concludes that the former SNS executive director, António Gandra d’Almeida, disregarded the law on access to the specialty consultation that allowed him to be operated at the Vila Nova de Gaia hospital.
At issue is the surgery that Gandra D’Almeida performed in October 2024 at Santos Silva Hospital in Vila Nova de Gaia. The former director of the National Health Service (NHS) disrespected the law on access to the first consultation that allowed him to be operated on.
The conclusion is from the General Inspectorate of Health Activities (IGAS) after an audit whose conclusion is cited by the newspaper.
First Specialty Consultation It is essential to be able to access NHS surgery, but often users keep months waiting for a vacancy.
Gandra d’Almeida “Bolted” the stipulated procedures To have access to the consultation, not being referenced by “functional units of health groups or other hospital services of the same institution”, nor by SNS24 or any other entities, the IGAS report states.
The doctor who attended the former SNS director “Diligenciated by the registration of first consultation of the specialty, in a non-presential regime, after informal observation of the userwith the aim of triggering the necessary request of the complementary medium of diagnosis and therapeutic (magnetic resonance imaging) and the scheduling of subsequent consultation, ”says the audit.
This Action “deserves repair”since does not respect “equitable access From users to the National Health Service ”, stresses Igas.
That of the entity came after a anonymous report Against Gandra d’Almeida when his operation, accusing him of not respecting waiting lists, and having passed other patients.
The former SNS director had assured that “Everything was done according to the rules” and that did not commit “any illegality”.
Gandra d’Almeida from the position in January this year, due to accumulation of functions – He was director of North INEM, headquartered in Porto, and a doctor Tasfeiro at Faro and Portimão emergencies at the same time.
