The lead to the construction project of the Algarve Oncological Center, by the Loulé Chamber, was due to the increase in the volume of the work, motivated by adapting to the new legislation, this Tuesday justified the former vowel of.
Paulo Neves, who was speaking in the Parliamentary Health Commission, explained that the change to the project was motivated by a change in introduced legislation as early as 2024, which “forces bunkers to be created for the installation of equipment with radioactivity emissions” Nuclear Medicine Units.
“There has to be a reserve bunker, then the area has increased, and the ‘bunkers’ have to be buried. From the moment they have to be buried, in our view and being a nice imposition, it was below the 4,600 square meters that we had requested, ”noted the manager.
Also present at the meeting, the previous administration of the Algarve Local Health Unit (ULS) considered that the land provided by the Faro-Loué Municipalities Association to implement the cancer center in the region has constructive feasibility and there was available funding, with municipal cameras manifested its availability to make the necessary changes for the center to be implemented on site.
The project was rejected by the Chamber of Loulé for the planned construction area to overcome the expected capacity for the land provided at the Detail Plan of Faro-Loué Parque and, this Tuesday, Paulo Neves said he did not think that the “bunkers ”They count to the volume of construction, because they would only serve to install machinery necessary to treat patients on the upper floors.
Given the lead of the project by the Loulé Chamber, which was made available to start a revision of the detail plan for the land given to host the Algarve cancer center, the current chairman of the ULS Board of Directors proposed to the government that the Oncological Center of South Reference (Cors) was integrated into the new Algarve Central Hospital, whose contest should be launched by the end of the first half of this year.
Tiago Botelho stated that if Cors were completed by the end of 2024, he would not defend his inclusion in the new hospital.
“Thus, I proposed to the Secretary of State for Health Management to pondere and, in my view, the most appropriate position would be to stop as soon as possible with this project for a simple reason: is that the central hospital has all the equipment that Cors would have, ”he said.
At the Parliamentary Health Commission of the Assembly of the Republic, both the Mayor of Loulé (Vítor Aleixo) and Faro (Rogério Bacalhau) reaffirmed the availability for any change that allows to welcome the center, strange that, in a process started in 2021, The project had only entered the municipality in October 2024.
During the session, the PS and PSD deputies exchanged accusations about the responsibility of the delay in the process of building a center that would serve 3,500 patients per year, providing a nonexistent response in the south of the country, preventing them from traveling to Lisbon or Seville to be able to receive treatments and take exams in the cancer area.
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