The Famalicão Chamber will move forward with the construction of the new Family Health Units (USF) in Nine and Ruivíaes and with the rehabilitation of the Famalicão Health Center and the Lung Diagnostic Center.
At a meeting of the Chamber on Thursday, the municipal executive approved the signing of software contracts between the municipality and the Regional Health Administration of the North (ARS-Norte), which will serve as the basis for submitting applications for the health plan. and Resilience (PRR) with the aim of constructing and rehabilitating primary health care equipment.
“These are important investments that will allow us to improve the facilities and thus serve and provide health care to the population,” said the president of the chamber, Mario Passos, in a statement issued by the municipality.
Despite the new developments, the mayor criticized the application deadlines: “We are working and making every effort to complete the projects and ensure the use of existing funding, but I can only express my dissatisfaction with the very short deadline that has been set.” Established by the guardianship. “We are working against the clock.”
This year, the construction of two new family health units begins in Juan and São Miguel o Anjo, in Calendario, “necessary investments, which the financing helps to pay for, but they are always less than what is necessary to realize the final project and they force us to make more investments,” said the mayor. “A huge financial effort.”
On January 1, the municipality assumed responsibility for the management, maintenance and preservation of equipment related to primary health care, and thus the responsibility for contracting rehabilitation works and building new equipment.
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