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“On November 3, 1.8 million vaccines were delivered to the National Health Service,” said the minister, in a parliamentary hearing, adding that “270 thousand vaccines are being delivered in the week from November 30 to December 6, a date that you can go ahead ”.
“To date, a million Portuguese have been vaccinated, with 800 thousand vaccinations in values“, assured the governor.
Asked by PSD about the existence of “millions of Portuguese from the north to the south of the country on waiting lists” for the flu vaccine, Marta Temido recalled that the Ministry of Health “increased the purchase of vaccines by 39 percent this year,” for a total of 2,070 million doses., and that it advanced with the anticipation of the vaccination program.
“Of the million Portuguese who were vaccinated, 770 thousand were with doses registered as administered and 260 thousand with doses delivered for administration in different institutions,” explained the minister, noting that in addition to delivering 200 thousand doses to pharmacies for sale to the public , these establishments “will have acquired 500 thousand vaccines.”
Marta Temido also reiterated that the country continues to “seek to reinforce in time” the acquisition of influenza vaccines and that “the Portuguese at risk and with criteria to administer the vaccine will have access”, but he did not fail to point out the “limited quantities” available on the world market.
Hiring 287 doctors allows 341 thousand people to have a family doctor
Still in a parliamentary hearing, the Minister of Health said that 287 specialists in general and family medicine will be hired for the NHS, which will allow another 341 thousand Portuguese to have a family doctor.
Marta Temido also highlighted the opening of 1,385 jobs for the medical career, which have already allowed the signing of 287 contracts with specialists in general and family medicine.
He also highlighted the “strengthening of health professionals in the NHS with the provision of an exceptional regime of fixed-term contracts and the subsequent possibility of converting 2,999 of these bonds into indefinite contracts “and the investment in the acquisition of drugs and vaccines for Covid-19, which represent an estimated expense of about 155 million of euros.
Temido highlighted “the resilience capacity that the SNS has had” and that, in September, “the levels of healthcare activity are already aligned with the first months of the year and that six thousand surgeries and 12 thousand consultations in additional activity have been recovered” .
OE2021 occurs “at the most difficult moment” in the history of the NHS
At the joint hearing of the Health Commission and the Budget and Finance Commission, the minister admitted that The State Budget for 2021 occurs “at the most difficult moment” in the history of the National Health Service.
“It has been 245 days since the first case of SARS-Cov-2 infection was diagnosed in Portugal and we still do not know when there will be an effective vaccine or treatment for Covid-19,” he said.
“It is in this difficult context that we are called to prepare the State Budgets for 2021, protecting the most fragile, because that is the social state, because that is universal health coverage.”
Marta Temido recalled that the budget of the National Health Service increases 1,210 million euros compared to the initial budget of 2020 or 805 million euros against the supplementary budget, of which 468 million euros are an increase in tax revenue.
This is the financial framework in which we will develop two lines of action for which it is necessary to continue looking for the best possible balance: that of the response to the Covid-19 pandemic and that of the response to the other healthcare needs of the population. emergency and response to everything else ”, he emphasized.
According to Marta Temido, the creation of a strategic reserve of medicines, medical devices and personal protective equipment that in the first months of the pandemic ensured the availability of these items to the NHS and other government areas, having received to date around a million robes. , 1.4 million total protective suits, 1.7 million caps, 20 million gloves, 58 million type 2 masks, 13 million respirators and FFP2 and FFP3.
At this time, about 28 million of these items are being purchased with an economic value close to 150 million euros.
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