“Deep concern” in a sector that in Portugal, historically, struggles with very low margins.
The war in Iran brought a considerable increase in the price of fuels. And this increase doesn’t just have an impact on the driver who refuels the vehicle.
It has an impact on the price of food and other products (more expensive transport), electricity, the cost of construction – and with consequences for the housing market – and also affects the costs of the emergency room sector, for example.
In a statement, ARAN – National Automobile Industry Association indicates that it is “deeply concerned” about this rise in fuel prices.
It is a context that creates a “pressure even more significant impact on the economic and financial sustainability of companies dedicated to the provision of services through Emergency Room”.
This in a sector that, historically, struggles with “very small margins”.
And there is another important point: most emergency room companies do not have “the negotiating capacity to reflect the increase in costs in the prices applied to their customers”.
Economic and operational sustainability is “committed”.
ARAN warns that, without concrete and urgent measures, the sector may not be able to continue operating due to a lack of capacity to support operational costs. In other words, the emergency room may stop.
Companies in the sector have already informed ARAN that they can move towards a joint strike, “to highlight the unsustainability of the activity in the face of escalating costs”.
