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Users who belong to the priority groups for the first phase of vaccination against covid-19 and are not summoned should contact the National Health Service (SNS), the Health Minister clarified this Friday.
The information was delivered by Marta Temido in a joint hearing between the parliamentary health commission and the eventual commission to monitor the implementation of measures to respond to the pandemic of the covid-19 disease and the process of economic and social recovery, in which he gave the guarantee that the Ministry of Health is strengthening the means of contact of the SNS.
“The system will contact people who due to their age and comorbidity are eligible for vaccination. We know that we will not be able to reach everyone. Whoever is not contacted, can contact the NHS, this is always a possibility,” said the minister. . who, confronted by the deputy Ana Rita Bessa, of the CDS, also admitted having already had “difficulties” in contacting the health center.
“As a user I had that experience, but we are improving. We are investing in the improvement of telephone exchanges and contact centers,” he reiterated.
Marta Temido, who spoke by videoconference, countered the criticism of the Left Bloc deputy Moisés Ferreira about the alleged lack of reinforcement of human resources in the NHS, considering this accusation “a fiction” and moving forward with the example of nurses, who will increased from around 45,800 in November 2019 to about 48,000 a year later.
“We have tried to bring in more health professionals and make the interim agreements final,” he said.
In Portugal, 5,977 people died from 366,952 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
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