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Former Health Minister Adalberto Campos Fernandes said Tuesday that the National Health Service is being exposed to a stress test due to the pandemic and that it is not acceptable for someone to die from lack of care.
“It is not acceptable for someone to die prematurely due to lack of care. The crisis exists, but it cannot be an excuse for everything we have to do and we are not doing it, “said Adalberto Campos Fernandes in an intervention at the online conference” State Budgets 2021: Social Protection – After Covid-19, Where are we going? ? ”.
The doctor and former minister (2015-2018) said that “There are patients who are being left behind”, referring to those suffering from chronic diseases, but also to those suffering from unexpected acute diseases.
For Adalberto Campos Fernandes this situation will translate into a “Excess mortality that, by the end of the year, it will probably exceed eight or nine thousand cases “, he estimated, considering that” from a social, political and ethical point of view it is absolutely unbearable. “
The former socialist minister also defended that it is necessary to draw all the lessons from this pandemic situation and from this context to prepare for the future, adding that this is not an exclusive task of the Government, but is also “a work of the Republic and Democracy. ”.
“In wartime weapons are not cleaned, we have to treat the best we can of all the people who need care, but after the worst phase of the crisis, it is a good time to have structured and structured conversations about the future of the Portuguese Health System ”, he considered.
In Portugal, since the beginning of the pandemic, in March, 4,056 people have died of the 268,721 confirmed cases of contagion, according to the latest bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
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