CEO Lusíadas Saúde warns against Spanish management at Cascais PPP companies

Ribera Salud, who in 2022 ended up competing alone for the management of the Cascais Hospital, He should not be chosen by the government“, sees Vasco Antunes Pereira. In an interview with Negócios and Antena 1, CEO of Lusíadas Saúde – the company that has managed this hospital for 14 years and which withdrew from the last competition because it realized that there was no economic sustainability – He warns that the Spanish entity will have difficulty retaining and attracting talent.

“Having a Spanish operator, without any presence in Portugal, running the SNS hospital – at the time we said this to the Ministry of Health – seems risky to me,” said Vasco Antunes Pereira, CEO of Lusíadas Saúde. That we must have an entity of very little poetic power Very little ability to retain professionals in Portugal and attract new onesBecause there is only a hospital in Cascais.”

At stake is a company, in 2022, after the competition in Cascais, He became part of Vivalto Santé – The same French group Which took over Lusíadas Saúde this year. Asked whether this deficit has already been proven, after about a year of new management, CEO Lusíadas Saúde states that he still does not know the accounts of the Cascais Hospital and stresses that he does not have any “feedback”, although he wishes he did. “Things are going well.”

Why did Lucíadas Saudi withdraw from this tender, claiming that there was no economic sustainability in the public-private partnership, while Ribera Salud considered the terms “adequate”? Vasco Antunes Pereira responded that “the Spaniards, Maybe because of the experience they have, and because of the size they might eventually have“They considered that they could complete the 10-year period in this contract,” but stressed that “the process that was intended to be competitive There was no competition“And that's in addition to Ribera Salud,”No one made any suggestion because they considered the model unworkable“.