Cristina Vaz Tomé, former Secretary of State for Health Management
Cristina Vaz Tomé was the Secretary of State for Health Management at the time of delays in the provision of emergency care of INEM. Government now chooses to assign new functions, advances to Saturday.
The former Secretary of State for Health Management Cristina Vaz Toméone of the faces of the controversy around the strike in INEM at the end of last year, which coincided with emergency care and may have caused the death of up to 11 people, will now be chairman of the Board of Directors of the Lisbon Metropolitan.
The news is advanced by Monday, which ensures that the decision starts from the current government, which chose to attribute new functions after its brief passage through the Assembly of the Republic as a deputy.
It is recalled that the prosecutor even opened investigations into 11 deaths allegedly caused by the absence of prehospital emergency technicians.
Despite the political pressure and being disallowed by the Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martins – who withdrew the guardianship of INEM – Cristina Vaz Tomé was not removed from the government in February remodeling.
With the beginning of the XXV Legislature, the former governor took office as a deputy, but for a short time, since he will now be appointed to lead the capital’s metropolitan.
Asked by Saturday, Vaz Tomé, industrial management engineer, refused to comment on the appointment, considering “early”A conversation about it.
Parliament approved on Friday the creation of a Inquiry Commission To investigate INEM’s political and management responsibilities in recent years, following a proposal presented by the Liberal Initiative (IL) bench.
The inquiry was approved with the votes in favor of the deputies of the arrival, IL, Livre, PCP, BE, PAN and JPP and with the PSD abstentiondo PS e do CDS-PP.
Deputies have 90 dias To investigate the political, technical, contractual, legal and financial responsibilities related to INEM, including during the strike of the end of October and early November 2024, as well as those related to the process of the international public tender for hiring emergency medical air transport.
