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The Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martins, speaks before the Health Commission this Wednesday
The refoundation of INEM will move forward on November 3rd, which will change its name to ANEM. The Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martins, dismissed, on Thursday night, the then president Sérgio Janeiro. Luís Cabral should succeed him.
The Ministry of Health confirmed the change of president at INEM. However, in statements to Lusa, he states that the current president of the National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM) Sérgio Janeiro was not fired, but replaced.
“There was no resignation of the president of INEM. Following a competition opened by CReSAP [Comissão de Recrutamento e Seleção para a Administração Pública]with a view to recruiting and selecting the president of INEM, one of the three candidates validated during this procedure was chosen”, who is not the current president, he clarified.
Sérgio Janeiro, Nélson Pereira and Luís Cabral are the three names validated by CReSAP and the Ministry of Health source only said that Sérgio Janeiro will not be the next president of INEM.
According to, Luís Cabral was chosen by the minister, in a decision that will still have to be approved by the Council of Ministers this Friday.
The same television station says that the INEM will be renamed ANEM – National Medical Emergency Authority.
Luís Cabral served as regional secretary of Health for the Azores between 2012 and 2016 – and not everything went well. For this reason, this change is already being contested by professionals in the sector, who sent a letter to Luís Montenegro asking him to “re-evaluate” the choice.
Quoted by RTP, the Union of Pre-Hospital Emergency Technicians (STEPH) asked, earlier this week, for the appointment to be re-evaluated, claiming that the choice of doctor “raises many and legitimate concerns” for professionals in the sector.
The competition for president of INEM was opened in January this year, but was interrupted due to early legislative elections in May, with Sérgio Janeiro remaining in the position, who had been appointed in July 2024 on a 60-day replacement basis. Under the terms of the Management Personnel Statute, appointment to senior management positions cannot occur between the call for elections for the Assembly of the Republic and the parliamentary investiture of the new Government.
The process for choosing the new president of INEM opened on January 6th and ended on the 19th of the same month, after a first competition that did not have enough candidates.
Sérgio Janeiro’s mandate, which is now ending, was marked by the November 2024 strike, which led to the investigation of 12 deaths due to delays in aid.
According to RTP, Luís Cabral’s entry into office and change of name from INEM to ANEM will occur at November 3 – on a day that is being treated as the INEM refounding date.
