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The President of the Order of Doctors, Carlos Cortes
The president of the Order of Doctors considered this Saturday revolting and dishonest to be responsible for a doctor and an emergency technique in the case of the death of a man on the day when an strike took place in INEM.
In a Facebook post, the Bastonnais of the Order of Doctors, Carlos Cortesthis Saturday expressed its perplexity for what it says it is “the strange logic to blame and sacrifice“.
“The absurd, of almost kafkian contours, arises when, in the face of this tragedy, accurately those who, in full chaos and particularly adverse conditions, sought fulfill your duty professional and ethical ”, the president.
“A doctor and an emergency techniquewho agreed to be on duty on that troubled day, They are unexpectedly pointed out as guiltytransformed into true scapegoats In a shocking inversion of reality, ”adds Carlos Corte.
The president referred to the Report Conclusions From the General Inspection of Health Activities (IGAS) regarding the delay in relief to a 53-year-old user from Pombal, who died on November 4 last year and who were known this Wednesday. According to the report ,.
In a note that day, the Ministry of Health, referring to the conclusions of Igas, said that “the eventual delay in the arrival of INEM, and contrary to what was adventured by some, It is not attributed to the existence of a strike In INEM, not even a delay in calling the call by the urgent patient orientation center. ”
Citing the version of the Igas report sent to it, the ministry said that “The causes of the delay will be otherAnd that will be related “to the alleged“lack of zeal, care and diligence“Of two professionals who intervened in the relief process.”
About these behaviors, the Igas report considers that professionals “did not act according to the good practices of the medical emergencyAnd that if they “required another faster and more expeditious attitudein concrete on screening and order of means ”.
For the Bastonary “It is deeply revolting and dishonest that, in a country where often the true responsible are spared criticism and the consequences, precisely workers, those who face daily real difficulties, to be sacrificed at the altar of the conveniences of the moment. ”
According to Carlos Cortes, that’s whyimperative and urgent to end this logic wicked. Public institutions have a duty to account for transparency and seriousness. That are identified and held responsible The true authors of the failures, not those who have fulfilled, despite the adversities, the mission of saving lives, meeting the sick. ”
“We are aware of next episodes of this unfortunate newsletter that, for now, remains very badly counted“It concludes the Bastprint in its publication.
The case dates back to November 4, day by-one of the prehospital emergency technicians to the overtime and the other from the public administration.
According to the president, This was a “widely announced strikepredictable and general knowledge. Except, it seems, the authorities responsible for ensuring the basic and minimum functioning of the National Emergency Medical System ”.
Cortes recalled that they were “, chaos installed, widespread anguish, severely committed help and, in the middle of this dramatic scenario, a known deadly victim in Pombal.”
More than half of the 7,326 calls made For INEM on November 4, 2024, the day of the technicians’ strike that had the most impact on the institute’s activity, were abandoned, concluded an inspection of Igas.
