Rui Tato Marinho, the clinical director of Hospital Santa Maria in Lisbon, has been dismissed following recent revelations concerning additional surgeries.
The decision was made last week by the chairman of the board, Carlos Martins, after the results of audits on these surgeries became known.
The dismissal was accepted this Wednesday by the Health Minister, Ana Paula Martins.
The minister has also approved a successor, who will be Ana Isabel Lopes, the current director of the Pediatrics service. Ana Isabel Lopes is already known to the public, having been called to the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission concerning the Luso-Brazilian twins who received the drug Zolgensma at the same hospital.
It was Ana Isabel Lopes who responded to a call from the State Secretary for Health, then led by António Lacerda Sales. The call, made by Lacerda Sales’ personal secretary, requested “a neuropediatric consultation and a clinical evaluation for two children (twins) diagnosed with a specific pathology.”
The Controversy
Earlier this week, resignations occurred in this department following the preliminary findings of an internal report requested by the chairman of the board regarding additional surgeries at Santa Maria.
Confronted with the findings, which confirmed irregularities in the Dermatology service, the head of the Dermatology department, Paulo Filipe, resigned.
Paulo Filipe submitted his resignation late yesterday after being confronted with the preliminary results of the internal report initiated by the board chairman on additional surgeries.
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One contentious case at the hospital involves a dermatologist who recorded performing several surgeries in her name while these were actually conducted by internal doctors, as she was attending a conference in Italy.
The report from TVI highlighted that the doctor earned nearly 113,000 euros in seven days of additional surgical production (Saturdays).
In a May Saturday this year, the dermatologist recorded several surgeries while at a conference in Italy. It is known that she earned nearly 113,000 euros for seven days of surgeries in additional surgical production (Saturdays).
Notícias ao Minuto with Lusa | 23:24 – 21/06/2025
Previously, it was reported that another doctor earned 400,000 euros over ten additional work Saturdays last year (including 51,000 euros in a single day). The doctor assures that he operated on “those who needed surgery” and did not commit any “unlawful acts” nor violated any communicated rules.
The Santa Maria dermatologist, who earned around 400,000 euros over ten additional work Saturdays last year (and 51,000 euros in one day of work), claims he did not commit any “unlawful acts” nor violated the rules, and that the surgery on the parents was known to his superiors.
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[Updated at 19:08]
