The Socialist Party (PS) unveiled its electoral program today in Lisbon, emphasizing the need to promote a “universal, strong, and resilient National Health Service (SNS)” and calling for its expansion.
The PS proposes to include “oral health in the SNS’s basic care package.”
“To achieve this goal, we will establish 350 dentist offices in every municipality across the country, leveraging the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR). Following the creation of a dentist career within the SNS, we will hire dentists and oral hygienists to provide comprehensive public health responses,” the program states.
Beyond dental care, the PS aims to “integrate mental health into the SNS’s basic care package, enhancing the teams and human resources in this field by hiring psychiatrists, pediatric psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, and occupational therapists.”
Specifically, the PS plans to create “community mental health teams and to incorporate 300 psychologists by the end of 2026, ensuring their integration into the senior health technician career path and securing the mental health component within emergency responses.”
In the healthcare sector, the PS also aims to ensure that “more family doctors are placed in health centers most in need of medical professionals through the creation of housing support for doctors willing to relocate.”
