In Almodôvar, after visiting the health center in the neighboring municipality of Castro Verde, both in the district of Beja, PS Secretary-General José Luís Carneiro highlighted what he described as “another failure in the government’s health policy.”
“This government promised, in an action plan it presented, to resolve various issues in the National Health Service (SNS), particularly the most urgent, which is hospital emergency services,” he noted.
However, José Luís Carneiro emphasized that the country is witnessing, “for the second consecutive year, pregnant women traveling from town to town to give birth,” and it has reached the “Third World extreme” of a woman having given birth “on the street.”
“It is proof of a brutal failure in the health sector,” he stressed.
According to the PS leader, the socialist delegation that visited the Castro Verde Health Center learned that this Alentejo municipality has “about a thousand people without a family doctor.”
During the stop in Almodôvar on the “For Cohesion and Territorial Valorization” route along National Road 2 (EN2), the socialist leader took the opportunity to recall the PS proposals for the health sector, such as strengthening primary health care.
Carneiro advocated “strengthening family health units as legislative instruments and work methods to meet the needs of those who still do not have a family doctor, because they have a method of doctor substitution.”
“The more qualified the response in primary health care, the better the living conditions of our population will be, and there will be less demand for hospital care,” he emphasized.
The PS Secretary-General also proposed more investment in home care and community care teams to address “upstream of SNS demand.”
“It is necessary to look at the composition of each family doctor’s patient list to adjust this list to the diversity of territories, social diversity, and pathology diversity, so that we can, in some cases, expand the family doctor’s patient list and, in other cases, possibly reduce it,” he suggested.
The introduction of medical specialties in primary health care, such as ophthalmology, psychiatry, or dentistry, with scheduled consultations, was one of the proposals.
