“What we are experiencing today is not an inevitable crisis; it is a provoked crisis. Yes, provoked. Provoked by a government that promised everything and delivered nothing, nothing,” Fernando Araújo stated during a rally at the Super Bock Arena – Pavilhão Rosa Mota in Porto.
In a speech primarily focused on healthcare, the former executive director of the National Health Service (SNS) recalled that the AD coalition “claimed that just changing the government would resolve all problems, but instead of solutions, they brought excuses.”
“Instead of responsibility, they brought propaganda. Instead of caring, they are cutting, fragmenting, and privatizing. Whenever there is a problem, the response is always the same: another agreement with the private sector and everything is resolved,” he accused.
Fernando Araújo believes that the AD government’s leaders “create problems and then present the usual friends to solve them.”
“We know what is happening. We know what they didn’t do last summer and winter. We know there is a project that doesn’t state its name but seeks to turn our right to health into a business,” he observed.
Prior to this, the doctor criticized “those who think difficulties can be resolved with plans based on slides made by any communication agency.”
On the contrary, the former SNS executive director advocated for “projects, ideas, teams that are motivated and not destroyed, with leadership, with involvement, with responsibility, with the humility to correct what can and should be improved, by listening, involving, motivating.”
Fernando Araújo further accused the AD government (PSD/CDS-PP coalition) of “using people’s despair as a political weapon.”
“They are turning doctors against nurses, turning patients against professionals, turning the public sector against the private sector as if chaos were inevitable, as if the only option for health were selling the SNS,” he added.
Fernando Araújo recalled the 11 deaths that occurred during the INEM strike and the recent problems during Monday’s blackout.
For the PS’s top candidate in the Porto district, the SNS “is at risk,” and “democracy is being corroded by the trivialization of lies.”
