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Data from the Ricardo Jorge National Institute of Health point to a worsening of the epidemiological situation of covid-19, but the Minister of Health defended this Monday that these calculations can be reversed with “effective measures.”
Of course, the calculations result in the application of mathematical models that we can invert if we are able to take effective measurements and measurements. That depends on each one of us and I cannot avoid making this reference again ”, stressed the Minister of Health, Marta. Fearful, at the end of a meeting with the President of the Republic, in the Palace of Belém, which lasted about 90 minutes.
On the topics discussed in the meeting with Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, he said that they are questions of “nature of the assessment of the situation in the country” and other countries and “more detailed information on the epidemiological situation.”
“Basically, it was the detail of a set of information and the discussion of the hypotheses that arise from the evolution of the pandemic, which scenarios are supposed to happen,” said the minister, without specifying what those scenarios are.
He recalled that the Head of State has maintained regular contacts, also with the Ministry of Health, in order to constantly assess the evolution of the pandemic situation.
“It is not a new reality, it is something that has been maintained for several months and weeks specifically through what he calls Infarmed meetings,” said the minister.
Asked about the possibility of a curfew or a new confinement, Marta Temido said that the Government “has always tried to act in accordance with the epidemiological information, its evolution and the principles of proportionality, but also of precaution in health public “.
“It will be based on these two axes that we are going to continue making decisions, obviously seeking to follow what is everyone’s desire,” he said, to find “the most virtuous balance possible between the ability” for the country to continue to function as a society. and the assets to be protected.
He also said that public health measures are determined at intervals that the Government has sought to “always guarantee” and that they are communicated after the Council of Ministers meetings.
“These are measures that do not belong to the Ministry of Health and, therefore, at this moment our focus is to apply the measures that were determined in the last meeting of the Council of Ministers and apply them properly and guarantee their compliance and continue working on two aspects that they seem very important ”, he stressed.
On the one hand, “trying to alleviate the pressure” on the NHS “, opening more intensive care beds and hiring more people, he said, highlighting the start of works to expand the intensive care units of the Amadora-Sintra Hospital and” others who are in the same process. “
Asked about the articulation with the private and social sector, the minister recalled that since April the SNS has been active in an agreement agreement to which entities from these sectors can adhere and that regional health administrations can activate if they consider it necessary.
“I know that regional health administrations are making contacts with various entities to try to have more capacity for expansion than there is in the National Health Service,” he stressed.
Faced with “the great concern” that she has “often” heard about the beds of the SNS, Marta Temido recalled that the SNS has around 21 thousand beds, of which 18 thousand would be available for the covid-19 “in theoretical terms”, because “they are busy to attend to other patients”, but “there is the capacity to expand the National Health Service.”
“Naturally, we will only deselect the scheduled activity if necessary because our role is to balance the best possible responses to your needs,” he defended.
The Minister of Health was the first of a group of personalities in the field of Health that Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa intends to learn about the covid-19 pandemic.
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