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The PSD said on Thursday that the Prime Minister’s meeting with the presidents of Paços de Ferreira, Felgueiras and Lousada on the increase in covid-19 cases was “a slap on the wrist” for the three mayors of the PS.
According to the Social Democratic district of Porto, the “slap on the wrist” also extended to the executive director of the Group of Health Centers (ACES).
“The Prime Minister’s visit to Paços de Ferreira [na quarta-feira] It can only be understood as a slap on the wrist, which only sins late, since this is the region of the country with the most cases per hundred thousand inhabitants. It was public and notorious, in recent days, the panic and bewilderment of the health and municipal authorities, either due to the adoption of contradictory measures, or due to the errant and incoherent speech, “says the PSD in a statement.
According to the party’s structure, “the meeting called by António Costa, as a matter of urgency, is unmistakable proof of an unequaled lack of coordination of the local health authorities and of the total disorientation and ineffectiveness of the mayors of the municipalities, in the face of the facts. “. .
Even for the PSD, “the statements of the executive director of ACES Tâmega III, Dr. Hugo Lopes, are absolutely irresponsible, senseless and negligent.”
“Justifying the appearance of 944 cases in the last seven days, with family ties, is a strange justification and, at least, not very serious for someone who is most responsible for the management of the pandemic situation in the region and who, in the middle in an emergency, he seems afraid to handle the chaos, ”adds the district.
The PSD / Porto points out, on the other hand, that “the lack of action and the lack of coordination of the municipalities in this matter, given the risk of contagion in a highly industrialized region, with thousands of workers, is heartbreaking.”
“There is no knowledge of a contingency plan articulated with ACES and business associations. Any minimally diligent mayor would have activated this mechanism, if not before, just after the lifting of the state of emergency, ”the statement highlights.
Among the three municipalities, PSD / Porto says, “abrupt and abnormal growth is evident in the municipality of Paços de Ferreira.”
In Lousada, on the other hand, “the Chamber has neither had the capacity nor the initiative to implement preventive measures and streamline procedures.”
In Felgueiras, according to the Social Democrats, “the municipal executive remains confined, leaving the health centers adrift, especially in the efforts that were imposed on ACES.”
For the Social Democratic district, “it is urgent [o Governo] give priority to this region, interrupt the chains of transmission and immediately stop this unusual spread of the disease.
Prime Minister António Costa said this Wednesday in Paços de Ferreira that the National Health Service (SNS) will have a “response to the needs” given the foreseeable increase in infections from the new coronavirus in the Vale do Sousa region. .
At this time, what the president of the Northern Regional Health Administration has been able to assure us is that, even taking into account what the pandemic is expected to increase in the region [interior do distrito do Porto] over the next few weeks, there will be a response from the NHS to the needs of general hospitalization and intensive care hospitalization, “he said.
António Costa responded to the journalists’ question about the response capacity of the Peñafiel hospital, the reference unit in a region with half a million inhabitants, which these days has faced great difficulties, with a shortage of professionals.
“From the assessment that was made of the response capacity in the region as a whole, we cannot look at each hospital unit as an isolated unit. You have to look at it as part of a network that exists in each region, “added the head of government. .
According to the executive president, “it is not about a sanitary fence or compulsory confinement.”
“We are concerned about the measures that aim to contain the expansion of the pandemic that originates from infections imminently derived from social life,” he reinforced, noting that most cases, according to local health authorities, have not “predominantly occurred in a work or school context. “.
The infections, he said, occurred “in social activities, parties, family or non-family gatherings,” he said.
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