Montenegro Trusts Health Minister

O prime Minister said today that he has confidence in the Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martins, stressing that he is doing his work “in a situation that is much more complex than it was two and a half years ago”.

In statements to journalists at the end of the informal summit of the European Union leaders in Dublin, Luís Montenegro was asked whether he maintained confidence in Ana Paula Martins after the recent deaths at Portimão Hospital and the case involving the director of the Local Health Unit (ULS) of Aveiro.

“ Certainly, the minister is doing her job and we have been making important decisions to improve our National Health Service (SNS), to ensure that he has the ability to respond in a joint that is even more complex than it was two and a half years ago, since they entered about 500,000 users in this period in the SNS ", answered the Prime Minister.

Montenegro stressed that the SNS is currently under “an increasing pressure from the point of view of users”.

“ And the investments that we have been making and made in the last two and a half years mean, first, more infrastructure, more equipment, better management capacity, better capacity to retain human resources, because, without doctors, without nurses, without assistants, there is no response capacity”, he listed.

The Prime Minister acknowledges that “unfortunately, everything is not going well”.

“And when things go less well, it has to be decided. This is what happened also in the SNS ", said.