Pedro Duarte talks to Ana Paula Martins
Alexandra Leitão and Pacheco Pereira. The Social Democrat does not hesitate: the Minister of Health is “a very arrogant woman”.
The Minister of Health remains at the center of much criticism. Joseph Pacheco Pereira, even with a vast CV linked to the PSD, he does not hesitate to criticize Ana Paula Martins.
It’s a woman “very arrogant”, always with a “speech of disclaimer”, pointed out the historian.
The commentator does not remember that the minister had said that she would assume political consequences if the SNS’s responsibility for a death was proven. In June, a report from the General Inspectorate of Health Activities indicated that at least one person died as a result of the strike at INEM.
“It has already been verified in one case or another – not all the investigations have yet been concluded – that there was this guilt, and she simply continues to carry out her duties. revenge mechanism“, analyze.
Already Alexandra Leitão (PS) do you think it is Ana Paula Martins who “poses” many problems in the SNS: “Starting with what gave you the bad information about the situation of this [que morreu no Amadora-Sintra]”, he adds.
Since 2024, Leitão points out, the Minister of Health has already “appointed whoever she wanted and changed the hospital boards of directors”. “Using the minister’s – quite unfortunate – expression, the boards of directors are all ‘bad’. It seems that those she names are too”, points.
Pedro Duarte, president of the Porto City Council, argues that the The NHS must “live off its doctors”; tariffs must be an “exceptional” measure.
“Well, that’s not what’s happening today. And the numbers have shown us that it’s not just the bill at the end of the year that has been increasing overwhelmingly with the doctors on duty. The resource [a tarefeiros] it has grown very substantially”, he recalled.
