The advisor “sifted” the requests he received from the Ministry of Health
Former Health Minister Antonio Correa de Campos revealed that he “only had an advisor for the stakes” when he took up his position in the ministry.
The former minister said in the TV program “It is or it is not” on RTP channel, last Thursday, “I say this with all loyalty and all front.”
Correa de Campos explained that the work of this advisor mainly includes “filtering” the requests that he receives via correspondence, stressing that “not all slips that arrive (…) are correct.” He pointed out that “some people ask about the moon, while others make sense.”
The former minister justified the advisor’s duties by saying that access to services “is not the same for everyone.” “Sometimes a message from someone who is almost illiterate deserves more attention,” he said.
However, Correa de Campos defended that anyone “with political power” should “fully defend himself” from requests for mediation from family or friends.
Correa Campos’s statements came on the day it became known that the former Secretary of State for Health, Antonio Lacerda Sales, held meetings with Nuno Rebelo de Sousa, at the Ministry of Health, when the process of treating the Portuguese-Brazilian twins was in full swing. place. .
Faced with news from TVI several times (from the same group as CNN Portugal), the now Socialist MP has never denied it. He said at the entrance to the Republic House: “Do not deny or confirm, because these are cases that should only be dealt with in their private places. They should not be dealt with in the public arena.”
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