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“The minister resigned as a leader in health in Portugal,” accused Miguel Guimarães, who intervened during the Hippocratic oath ceremony that was held online and that brought together between 300 and 400 doctors trained at the University of Coimbra and the University of Beira. Inside.
In an event organized by the Regional Section of the Center of the Order of Physicians (SRCOM), the president stated that the Minister of Health “He does not know how to be or how to lead”, considering that the tutelary leader has been hiding “between the absence of the truth and the insistence on devaluing and humiliating the doctors, ignoring that without these people there would be nothing left to govern.”
“The recent attitudes of the Ministry of Health, from the incentive award that does not basically meet the objectives for which the Assembly of the Republic fought, to the promotion of dozens of administrators with retroactive effects without applying the same measure also in the medical careers They show the shamelessness, the lack of transparency and the common sense of the Minister of Health ”, criticized the President.
At the event, the president of the SRCOM, Carlos Cortes, stressed that doctors “not only need prizes, bonuses, salary increases or more vacation days for what they did during this pandemic year.”
“They did nothing but what was their mission and their ethical and deontological duty. But they do need adequate conditions to care for their patients. They do need to have the means in each hospital, in each health center. health, in each emergency service, in each hospitalization ”, he defended, warning that there is“ a serious lack of human resources ”.
For Carlos Cortés, the economic restrictions “imposed by the Ministry of Health have always prevented the most urgent contracts.”
During his speech, the SRCOM official also drew attention to the inequality in the fight against covid-19 in the world.
“It saddens me to see an immoral and unbridled avalanche of doses of the new vaccines against covid-19 in which the most powerful and economically powerful countries try to snatch all available vaccines while forgetting about the poorest and most vulnerable populations of our planet” he said, calling on political leaders to defend “an equitable distribution of vaccines at the international level.”
The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, also participated in the event, who stressed that the medical profession is not “a profession like the others.”
“There are no hours, days, weeks. Anytime, any day, any week,” he noted, wishing all young doctors “a life full of successes.”
