(DR) Almada City Council
Garcia de Orta Hospital
Almada City Council rejected a private management of the hospital through a public-private partnership.
A Chamber Municipal of Almada rejected one private management do Garcia de Orta Hospital through a public-private partnership (PPP).
The decision was approved at a council meeting with the votes in favor of the PS (which leads the municipality, with President Inês de Medeiros), CDU e BE.
O PSD “is stunned” with this deliberation. Think this vote “I ignored on purpose all benefits known that private management brings to users and local health system. ”
In a statement sent to Zap, Paulo Sabino, chairman of the PSD Political Commission Almada, recalled that the hospital has “many problems” but also “potential to become a reference in health care.”
The PSD believes that a PPP management would be an efficient and innovative management model.
“The priority is the improvement of health care of users and Not an ideological war About who manages the hospital ”, warns Paulo Sabino.
PSD President Almada adds that “ideology shows ways, but if these paths are a mere attack on the private sector, then it’s not ideology: it’s prejudice. And the Radical left prejudices do not heal sick”.
The PSD also recalls that the process of launch the PPP hospital, it started in 2001 – by PS.
Social Democrats stress that, so far, most PPP performance reports recognize “Levels of clinical excellence and large savings”. Are hospitals integrated in the NHS and with SAVES FOR THE STATE.
In other words: “With the PPP is greater effectiveness in care provided and financial management“.
The PSD leader in Almada accuses left of “deceive people By saying that PPPs are bad for state coffers. This is fake! Just see the cases, successful, from Cascais, Braga, Vila Franca de Xira and Loures, created by PS governments and defended by PS mayors, ”recalls Paulo Sabino.
The PSD also hopes that the deputies of the Almada City Council reconsider their position, “putting the interest of users in the first place, leaving aside the prejudices.”
