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Eurico Castro Alves
ULS São João, Coimbra, Santa Maria, São José and Lisboa Oeste do not pay the coordinators of the additional production teams.
Eurico Castro Alvesdirector of Surgery at the Santo António Local Health Unit (ULSSA) in Porto, received, between 2021 and 2025, 178 thousand euros for surgeries performed by doctors he coordinated.
According to recent news from , it was the doctor who suggested his own remuneration.
The hospital administration did not clarify why the beneficiary himself proposed the percentage of his remuneration. In response to criticism, ULSSA argues that the change in percentages was intended to simplify and standardize the calculation model.
This Tuesday, he realized that payments like the ones Castro Almeida receives they don’t happen in any of the big hospitals anymore of the country. In other words, only Santo Antônio is paid to the coordinator of the additional surgery team.
A, between 2021 and 2025, as coordinator of the team that performed surgeries outside normal working hours, for “absence of working time” and violate the legal rules of the Integrated Surgery Registration Management System (SIGIC), which may therefore lead to replenishment of funds.
Público notes, however, that current legislation gives the ULS autonomy to decide how to distribute the amount among the teams. However, from what the morning reader found, it is not common for payments to be made to the coordinator of the additional surgery.
ULS São João, ULS Coimbra, ULS São José and ULS Lisboa Oeste clarified to the newspaper that they do not pay the coordinators of the additional production teams. ULS Santa Maria also informed that SIGIC’s internal regulations do not provide for payment to the team coordinator.
