Interview SIC News
The National Health Service faces a number of problems, including delays in relief, lack of human resources and the end of emergency. Francisco George, president of the Portuguese Society of Public Health, criticizes the lack of planning and information to the population, advocating the need for urgent measures to resolve the situation.
O It faces a wave of controversy-related controversy, lack of constantly closed human resources and emergencies, which forces users to travel out of their area of residence.
In an interview with SIC Notícias, Francisco George says that Portugal crosses a critical and serious periodwhich requires the implementation of measures capable of solving problems and promoting improvements, without creating the perception of no hospital services.
The president of criticism lack of planning and argues that it is not acceptable that services that open and close overnight, without information available to the population.
One of the controversial who has haunted The Ministry of Health In the last days it is the case of what after they were forwarded to hospitals outside your residence zone.
Francisco George says that the Minister of Health should recognize the number of problems resulting from the lack of planning and that one should consider the assignment of compensation In this type of situations, without the need for a judicial process.
As to on Wednesday, the former Director General of Health considers that the Minister of Health did not present enough justifications to rest the Portuguese.
