Minister of Health under fire after report on faults in INEM

The Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martins, may be on a thread, following the Preliminary Report of the General Inspection of Health Activities (Igas), known on Wednesday, about the failures of information to INEM during the stoppage between October and November last year.

According to the report's findings, the Ministry of Health ignored the strike pre-guidance it received, including November 4, which coincided with another strike, and did not warn INEM. Emergency medical services were eventually compromised, as the institute for the impact of the two strikes simultaneously, compromising relief to the population.

«INEM, IP, did not comply the communication of pre-advisors of the general strikes called for October 31 and November 4», It can be read in the preliminary inspection report on compliance with work organization standards and operational capacity of urgent patients' orientation centers (CODO).

« Having unaware of the details of them as to the type and duration of strikes, as well as the minimum services proposed, the possibility of any contestation of the minimum services that could only have been done within the first 24 hours of the respective emission of each pre-advice could only have been made. »adds to Igas, which criticizes the performance of the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Health in this case.

It is recalled that 11 deaths were recorded during the INEM strike at the beginning of November, some of which caused by relief failures during the stoppage.

A statement issued Thursday by the Ministry of Health guarantees that Ana Paula Martins is analyzing the document and that « It will take into account the difficulties regarding the two strikes » ensuring that the minister «It will act in accordance with the recommendations made by Igas».

He adds that «It awaits the completion of this inquiry, which is still lacking in the contradictory phase, and also the other that is being carried out by Igas about any faults of relief to citizens during the days of the strikes of October and November.

Parties ask for resignation

of the Minister of Health

From left to right, reactions begin to reaches the report that points out serious failures of information to INEM.

Pedro Nuno Santos demanded «Political consequences» to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health for «Early incompetence and negligence»and adds that he considered the silence of the President of the Republic incomprehensible.

« The consequences of this incompetence and negligence were serious, are known, there are 11 deaths and what is now imposed is to know what the Prime Minister will do, what the minister will do, what consequences removes from this report. »questioned the PS leader.

Blocking leader Mariana Mortágua considers that « There is no conditions for the minister to keep up with the Ministry of Health ». «The mistakes are succeeded»shot. The BE Coordinator also wants to hear in Parliament those responsible for the IGAS report.

From IL, Rui Rocha also did not hesitate to resign the ruler, who says he is fragile «A long time ago» soma «Of many other things».

The arrival also argued that not dismissing the minister is «The postponement of a Political corpse » And has already delivered a request to the urgent hearing of the minister.

Rain of health layoffs

Less than a year of governance, the requests for dismissal and substitutions in the National Health Service (NHS) follow, which led Mariana Mortágua to conclude that « the minister ». In all, the Ministry of Health has already dismissed 14 Hospital Administrations of the National Health Service (NHS).

In January, António Gandra d'Almeida filed the resignation of the position of Executive Director of the SNS, after an investigation from Sic To have revealed that it has accumulated, irregularly, functions as a doctor of Faro and Portimão for more than two years.

The doctor Eurico Castro Alves did not resist the complaints that circulated on « the existence of conflicts of interest in several managers » of the Order of Doctors and resigned from the emergency plan follow-up committee that elaborated, despite having a legal opinion that maintains that « there is no conflict of interest ».