PS wants to ensure investments in the health of the Algarve in the Budget of 2027

O Socialist Party (PS) today announced the presentation of a proposal to amend the State Budget for 2027 to ensure the continuity of health investments in the Algarve, including the construction of the Central Hospital.

The initiative of the Socialist Parliamentary Group aims to ensure the implementation of projects to modernize the infrastructure and equipment of the National Health Service (SNS), with special focus on primary health care and proximity, reads in the document sent to the Lusa agency.

The proposal identifies two concrete investments in the region: the improvement and requalification of the Departments of Intervention in Additive Behaviors and Dependencies (DICAD) of Portimão, budgeted at EUR 335,600, and the DICAD of Olhão, an investment of EUR 435,000, both plus VAT.

The initiative also provides that the Government must ensure, in 2027, the continuity of the investments provided for in the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), the Portugal 2030 programme and previous State Budgets.

Among the objectives mentioned are “the modernization of the hospital network, the strengthening of primary health care, the differentiation of care and the correction of territorial asymmetries in access to health care”.

Socialists consider it essential to prevent investments previously planned and assumed from being “compromised”, especially those that have been excluded from the current State Budget, arguing that the Government “must guarantee its financing and execution”.

With the proposal, the PS reaffirms the need to implement the Central Hospital of the Algarve and move forward with the modernization of the health structures of proximity, considering that the region needs a strengthening of public investment in the sector.