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The former Minister of Health, Adalberto Campos Fernandes, admits that the coming months will be “very difficult” and will require “unity” in the country due to the pandemic. For Marta Temido’s predecessor, a new global lockdown would be “devastating” and it is necessary to mobilize all the necessary resources for the treatment of patients with covid-19: “Let’s put aside, at least for the next three or four months, these themes that are often ideological rhetoric, they don’t make sense. Let’s mobilize the country, all the resources that the country has no matter where they are and let’s think about everything and only people, “said Adalberto Campos Fernandes in statements to journalists after a hearing in Belém.
The socialist’s statements become relevant in the context of Belém, since one of the objectives of the President of the Republic when summoning former health ministers was the need to close that gap between social networks and the private sector, to which the Minister of Health has resisted. The gesture of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was understood both in the PS and in the opposition parties as a way to weaken Marta Temido – or at least that would be the consequence of holding these meetings.
According to the former governor, it is a priority to protect the elderly and the most vulnerable, and it is up to all citizens to do their part in prevention to “protect the economy and employment” and help health professionals in the fight pandemic.
Adalberto Campos Fernandes also defended the use of pandemic risk maps, in order to “treat what is different in a different way”, adapting the measures to each local reality – which also goes against the philosophy that the Government is developing (no wants to discriminate regions).
Paulo Macedo, Minister of Health of the Government of Passos Coelho and today president of CGD, also had an audience with the Head of State today, but refused to give statements to journalists at the end of the meeting.
