This afternoon were acquitted by the former presidents of the IPO of Porto and the Algarve Hospital Center. They were accused of ‘hammering an agreement’ to take a northern doctor to the Algarve, in a scheme that may have injured the state in 100 thousand euros.
For the court, the collaboration agreement to assign doctors at a supplementary time was transparent and was solely purposeful to fill the gap of radiotherapy experts in the Algarve. The court also understood that former presidents of the IPO of Porto and the Hospital de Faro acted in the “public health interest”, without any intention of gaining advantages.
The collective of judges thus laid the theory of the prosecutor, which accused the defendants of “hammer a protocol of assignment”by direct adjustment, to convince doctors of Porto do Porto to provide services at Algarve Hospital a expenditure of salary and costs higher than that permitted by law, to benefit third partiesinjuring the state in 100 thousand euros.
Just a doctor He agreed to travel for almost three years. The defendants were unblemished. Orange bridgesformer president of the IPO of Porto, left criticism to those who made the accusation.
“It’s not the prosecutor, it’s people. Just as my name appears in the newspaper, the names of the people who make this narrative appear, when then the judge says that everything is invention. So it is very painful to hear these things, when what we did was defend the interest of the sick, because this was a duty of the advice councils: to monet the resources of the NHS,” he says, ” Orange bridges, former president of the IPO of Porto.
Former IPO Presidents of Porto and Algarve Hospital were acquitted of capital lanchament crimes, economic participation in business and falsification of document.
