PSD defends management under the aegis of Santa Casa da Misericórdia and accuses CDU and municipality of being “the big problem”. For its part, the City Council argues that the unit “should re-integrate the National Health Service”.
The PSD Beja District Political Commission issued a statement saying it is attentive to the needs that Hospital de São Paulo, where he argues that “the only option is to keep the hospital within the management sphere of Santa Casa and in complementarity with the hospital in Beja and SUV in Moura. In this situation, the support of the Municipality of Serpa and its executive is essential”.
IN THE document the Social Democrats leave a strong accusation about who is to blame for the situation that is experienced in the hospital unit: “the CDU that currently holds the municipal management of the municipality of Serpa has largely constituted itself as a large part of the problem rather than contributing to the solution of this issue”, recalling that through the return “ARS Alentejo has already admitted that the Hospital would be closed immediately as the building is owned by Santa Casa da Misericórdia and the population ratios to keep the hospital in operation are not met”, support.
The PSD District points out more criticism of the communists and assures that “the CDU maintains the climate of institutional “guerrilla” and the citizens without full knowledge of the facts are led to believe that the best solution is to remove from Santa Casa da Misericórdia the management of their hospital.
City Council position
Recognizing and respecting the effort that Santa Casa da Misericórdia has been making to keep this equipment in operation, Serpa City Council “defends that Hospital de São Paulo should rejoin the National Health Service”.
Recalling that Health must be public, universal, general and free of charge and only in this way can the right to health of our population be guaranteed, the municipality maintains that “it is a constitutionally enshrined right and that it must be ensured by the Local Health Unit of Baixo Alentejo and by the Ministry of Health., entities that agreed to transfer the management of this Hospital, through a cooperation agreement signed in 2014, to the Holy House of Mercy”.
Defending that at that time “the public service was not, the needs of users and the basic and necessary health services for the populations were not guaranteed”, Serpa City Council guarantees that “it will continue to commit to defending the rights of its citizens”, namely the right to health”.
What is certain is that the situation remains at an impasse and the only ones affected are the citizens of the municipality of Serpa who are deprived of decent conditions of access to health care..
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
