Rodrigo Antunes / LUSA
Ana Paula Martins, Miranda Sarmento and Francisco Pinheiro Catalão
Francisco Pinheiro Catalão is the new Secretary of State for Health Management. Ana Paula Martins is “exhausted”.
New exchange at the Ministry of Health: this Tuesday the President of the Republic accepted the Prime Minister’s proposal to exonerate, at your request, Francisco Rocha Gonçalves, who was Secretary of State for Health Management.
Francisco Pinheiro Catalão and you successor. The new Secretary of State for Health Management has already taken office.
Those who were there at the ceremony, among other ministers, were Ana Paula Martins. There was a (new) change in the position – but the minister continues to be a minister.
The opposition, and not only that, keeps repeating that the minister is unable to continue in office, that there has been a lot of failures, some serious, in the National Health Service, and that its position is very fragile.
This time, an alleged favoring Santo Antônio Hospitalin Porto, by Francisco Rocha Gonçalves: the hospital was authorized to open a Cardiac Surgery Unit run by a friend of the (now) former Secretary of State.
The minister does not have “political authority”reacts Marta Silva. The coordinator of Chega at the Parliamentary Health Committee points in the direction of Luís Montenegro: “The prime minister is being stubborn and now has direct political responsibilities for its maintenance”.
Marta Temido, previous Minister of Health, “for much less”, adds Marta Silva.
Also in , the PS coordinator on the same committee, Susana Correia, adds that “it is not the resilience of the minister nor the inertia of the prime minister that solves the problems of the National Health Service”.
She is a minister “exhausted and without solutions”, which “has not had the art, ingenuity and luck to get it right”, quotes the newspaper, without identifying the source.
