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Former Minister Fernando Leal da Costa It argues that hospitals need to prepare better for emergencies such as blackout. In relation to the alleged death of a patient during the power cut, he considers that is needed better investigate what happened.
Fernando Leal da Costa states that the lesson to be taken from the blackout is that hospitals should better provide fuel reserves. The former minister and secretary of state of health considers that the situation “could have been much worse.” As for the death of a woman for alleged lack of assistance during the power cut, the former governor says that there is still much to explain and that the deaths that occurred during the blackout should not necessarily be due to him.
In an interview with SIC Notícias, the former Minister of the Government of Passos Coelho argued that, in the case of health, the response given during the lack of energy “was the best possible in the context.”
“The government has portrayed well. It gave the answer it was possible,” he said. “Despite everything, it could have been much worse.”
Fernando Leal da Costa considers that the lesson to take is that hospitals have to increase their fuel reserves.
“Some hospitals, perhaps, should have approved their better diesel reserves,” he said.
Instead of enough reserves to eight hours, it will be necessary, it argues that health institutions prepare to be in case they are At least 24 hours no energy.
Questioned whether the statements of the Minister Castro Almeida – who stated that drivers from various rulers “went to buy diesel and took him to maternity” – They revealed government amateurism, Leal da Costa rejects. “It only shows that there was availability and willingness to answer ”answers.
“Each death is not going to say it was because of the blackout”
In relation to Fernando Leal da Costa says he does not know if INEM failed. The former minister also considers that there is something in history that “Does not hit the boot with the Perdigota”.
“There is a data that seems strange to me: to say that it took 23 minutes to arrive at the scene. The call was made when the battery was 50%. It does not calculate that the remaining 50% if they had spent in just 23 minutes,” he noticed.
The former ruler agrees that it is important to do an investigation. “The Ministry of Health had the best attitude: not pretending that it did not happen,” he said, stressing that it is necessary to identify the root of what happened and then, if necessary, to make the corrections it is to do.
“During those ten hours when the energy was missing, there were a lot of people who passed away. It is not expected, knowing that we have a constant pace of people to die over 24 hours, who, for those ten hours, did not die,” he noticed. “And every death that unfortunately happened it will not be said that it was because of the blackout.”
NHS Worst? “It’s at least the same”
Questioned if the National Health Service (NHS) It is worse than a year ago, when the government of Luís Montenegro, Fernando Leal da Costa, replies that “no”.
“It’s at least the same. And there are things where it has improved,” he said.
The challenge for the coming years, he argues, will be to find out how to respond to increased demand and at the same time maintain the sustainability of the NHS.
In relation to Public-Private Partnerships (PPPS)o – Braga, Loures, Amadora-Sintra, Vila Franca de Xira and Garcia de Orta. THE aNTIGO Executive Director of the NHS, Fernando Araújo, censored the intention, arguing that they would only be beneficial in the Algarve and Caldas da Rainha.
In reaction to these statements, Fernando Leal da Costa shot that “Anything can be, when it is not known what you are saying”.
“If I were minister, I would not say that I would open PPPs here or there”he stressed. “It’s a complex process that has to be studied.”
