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Even so, according to António Costa, the Government’s priorities are “to strengthen the capacity of the National Health Service to treat those infected, particularly those who develop pathologies that require hospitalization.”
“We are witnessing a significant growth of new cases in Europe and also in Portugal and at the same time we are returning from holidays and returning to normal activity. With this increase in activity, surely, we will also have a greater risk of transmission. Therefore, it is essential to increase the testing capacity, because the way we control is to quickly reach those who have suspicions, test and eventually isolate ”, emphasized the Prime Minister.
Costa goes back to March to recall that “then essential measures were taken to slow the growth of the pandemic.”
“But we are all very aware of the brutal social and economic costs that this set of measures has had on household income, on the employment of hundreds of thousands of people and in a business universe that has been greatly affected”he continued.
The answer, said António Costa, is “to continue fighting the pandemic while the country recovers.”
It is the responsibility of the Minister of Health to open the session at the headquarters of Infarmed. Marta Temido wanted to point out that the country has given priority to “carry out tests as soon as possible, but at the same time reliable and safe”.The Ministry of Health signed an alliance with the Institute of Molecular Medicine, the Portuguese Red Cross, the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Society and Jerónimo Martins to strengthen testing capacity in Lisbon and the Tagus Valley and ensure a rapid response to outbreaks in The whole country. It is expected to obtain more than 3,500 daily harvests.
“We have been strengthening the testing capacity of the SNS. The Economic and Social Stabilization Program was a fundamental help for many hospital laboratories to increase their capacity. Laboratory capacity on the NHS is now 14,400 autonomy tests, but it is intended to increase to around 22,000 tests by the end of October, “he said.
The minister also highlighted the importance of cooperation “between sectoral areas”, to consider “an honor the existence of a partner with the technical quality of the Institute of Molecular Medicine, or with the capacity for social intervention of the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Society” .
In turn, the president of the Portuguese Red Cross, Francisco George, stressed that this is not a time “of criticism or whining, but of mobilizing the means to combat the problem that everyone faces.”.
“It is necessary to mobilize all the means,” said the former director general of Health.
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