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The Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martins.
Nelson Batista is a candidate for the Loures City Council. With the contested Ana Paula Martins at the event.
Nelson Batista It is the coalition candidate PSD/CDS-PP to the City Council of Loures. The presentation is scheduled for 19h this Friday, in the Public Garden of Slate.
So far it would be one of hundreds of applications for this year’s municipal elections. But there is a presence, already confirmed, that sets another tone to this.
ANA PAULA MARTINS It will be at the event. The very contested health minister will support the coalition candidate.
But there is a detail in the board, the place of the presentation: In this parish there is only one reformed doctor. Is in consultations for a few hours and has announced that will stop exercising the profession.
In addition to this reformed doctor, there is only Teleconsultas For the majority of the population, who has no attributed doctor, highlights the.
In the case of Lousa, about two months ago “Saco Roto” fell on the promises of the PS (which leads the Loures Chamber with Ricardo Leão): they were announced Teleconsultas at Loures’s Personalized Health Care Unit – because There are no doctors.
Overall, the promise of a family doctor for each Portuguese, made by Luís Montenegro, will no longer be fulfilled by the end of this year, admits the Prime Minister himself.
May accounts point to more than 1.6 million users in Portugal without a family doctor.
Lousa is a clear case, where now will be the Minister of Health, in a county (Loures) that has been particularly affected by the closing of emergency services, reinforces the Abreilabril.
