IL premieres forum focused on health. Adalberto Campos Fernandes participates

The event takes place at the Pavilion of Portugal, in Lisbon, between 16h00 and 7h30, and includes, among the guests, the former Minister of Health Adalberto Campos Fernandes, appointed by the President of the Republic, António José Seguro, to coordinate the Strategic Pact for Health, a process from which the situation is unknown.

In statements to Lusa, the parliamentary leader of IL, Mário Amorim Lopes, explained the presence of the former Minister of Health has nothing to do with an attempt to bring the party closer to Belém, but with the fact that, despite being a socialist, Adalberto Campos Fernandes “agree that the health system should count on the help of the public sector, but also of the private and social sector”.

“Shows how in the ER, in an area that is not ours, there are people who do not have ideological ties and who therefore manage to look at health not as an ideological battlefield, but in a pragmatic way. It was above all because it shows that there are people who think so in that political area and so it is good that it is so and that there is this pluralism ", stressed.

Adalberto Campos Fernandes will be the first guest to intervene, with a lecture dedicated to “health system challenges”, following a panel on the access to “time and hours” to quality care, moderated by liberal congresswoman Joana Cordeiro, in which Francisco Goiana da Silva, former official of the Executive Directorate of the SNS, and Miguel Sampaio Peliteiro, doctor at Hospital São João.

The second part of the meeting includes an intervention by health economist Pedro Pita Barros on sustainability and artificial intelligence in the health system, and a panel dedicated to the impact of technology, with Rui Guimarães, former president of the Hospital de Gaia, and Duarte Sequeira, founder of COO Uphill, a Portuguese platform for clinical automation, moderated by Mário Amori Lopes.

The president of IL, Mariana Leitão, closes the first edition of this forum with an intervention at 7:15 p.m.

To Lusa, Mário Amorim Lopes also stated that the purpose of these forums is to “promote discussion with civil society”, in a debate “open to all”, counting on “concordant but also discordant voices” of IL’s positions.

“ Basically, we can produce something that can then be used to generate change, whether for a reform that we can present in the Assembly of the Republic, or to promote discussion by itself. Sometimes it is necessary to plant ideas and generate this discussion ", summarized.

On the subject under discussion in this first edition, the leader of the liberal bench explained that the goal is not to bring ideas for the short term, such as the discussion of the next state budget, but to contribute to the reform in the sector that IL has been defending for many years.

“ We want work to result from this which can then be used, either in the Assembly of the Republic or to continue to generate discussion. If this allows to generate discussion and put people to talk about these issues and solutions then the purpose is fulfilled ", said.

Mário Amorim Lopes also anticipated that these forums will take place every three months, with other issues focused on issues such as artificial intelligence, public administration, taxation or housing.