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It is an interview in the cycle organized by the Socialist Party under the title “Politics with a word” that began with António Costa and continues, this week, with the Minister of Health, Marta Temido.
Interviewed by Filipe Santos Costa, the Minister of Health admits that the National Health Service (SNS) will not be able to respond only to waiting lists that already exist.
“They are back,” acknowledges Marta Temido. “We are not going to say that there is not a great difficulty.”
“As a hypothesis, if we had zero cases of Covid-19 tomorrow, the Health System, to return to work, must take a series of precautions,” explains the minister, listing, for example, the physical and temporal space.
When asked if the SNS will be able to answer alone, Marta Temido is clear: “I don’t think so.” He admits resorting to the private sector: “From what the analyzes that we have already done, this intention exists, it is clear and we will activate it“guarantees the Minister of Health.
Marta Temido cannot guarantee that the SNS is prepared for a possible second wave, despite the efforts being made.
“I can’t say yes or no, but I think we’ll be ready“says the minister, explaining that, in this case,” we cannot have a rest strategy that can save resources for a second season. “
“The ‘players’ will not be able to rest. They have to continue training and playing, and that leaves everyone in a state of apprehension, naturally “, Marta Temido illustrates, in a sports metaphor. Everything “depends a lot on the attack of a possible new wave,” explains the minister.
When asked if anything would change in the action she took during this phase of the Covid-19 crisis, Marta Temido suggests that the communication on the use of masks could have taken another approach, although she stresses that the directive of the General Directorate of Health (DGS) was not about “lack of material”, but technical advice.
“If I knew that the final position of the European Center for Disease Control is the one that, among other things, has all the precautions regarding the possibility of using community masks (which was something that did not exist in terms of nomenclature), I would have I anticipated that solution, but, unfortunately, this exercise of seeing the film to the end, being able to anticipate the end and adopt a behavior compatible with that end, is only for the magicians, “answers Mata Temido, laughing.
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