Investigation takes place after anonymous report with internal data from the Santo António Hospital. General inspection of health activities also opened an inquiry.

The DIAP (Department of Research and Criminal Action) Regional of Porto opened a criminal survey to PSD parliamentary leader Hugo Soares.

At stake is a detailed anonymous complaint, according to the robotic surgery to the colon held by the deputy on 29 August 2024 at the Santo António Hospital.

The complaint, which arrived by email to the prosecutor, was also shared with the newspaper and contains internal information to the hospital, from the numbers of the clinical process to the personnel involved in the surgery.

In the email it is written that the reference for surgery had started with a consultation in the private and arose suspicions about the director of the Department of Surgery of that public hospitalEurico Castro Alves.

The clinical director of the Santo António Hospital, Jorge Barros, claims that “ anonymous denunciation has wrong or rudely adulterated assumptions“. It also says that” anatomopathological analysis showed acute and marked lesions of the excited anatomical piece, objectively reinforcing the clinical priority of the surgical indication. “

Hugo Soares and the surgeon of the operation did not comment. An inquiry (not an accusation) was also opened by the General Inspection of Health Activities (IGAS).

Investigation takes place after anonymous report with internal data from the Santo António Hospital. General inspection of health activities also opened an inquiry.

The DIAP (Department of Research and Criminal Action) Regional of Porto opened a criminal survey to PSD parliamentary leader Hugo Soares.

At stake is a detailed anonymous complaint, according to the robotic surgery to the colon held by the deputy on 29 August 2024 at the Santo António Hospital.

The complaint, which arrived by email to the prosecutor, was also shared with the newspaper and contains internal information to the hospital, from the numbers of the clinical process to the personnel involved in the surgery.

In the email it is written that the reference for surgery had started with a consultation in the private and arose suspicions about the director of the Department of Surgery of that public hospitalEurico Castro Alves.

The clinical director of the Santo António Hospital, Jorge Barros, claims that “ anonymous denunciation has wrong or rudely adulterated assumptions“. It also says that” anatomopathological analysis showed acute and marked lesions of the excited anatomical piece, objectively reinforcing the clinical priority of the surgical indication. “

Hugo Soares and the surgeon of the operation did not comment. An inquiry (not an accusation) was also opened by the General Inspection of Health Activities (IGAS).