The shortage of professionals in the health sector and the wages of trainers in the clinical course are issues that the head of the Esquerda por Braga bloc list in the Legislative Council of March 10, Bruno Maia, has been involved in in the last few months. Hours per trip are allocated to the health sector.
He met with the management of the National Association of Medical Students, joined by Teresa Garcia, from the Porto list, and with the Portuguese Nurses Union.
Several topics were discussed with the students, namely the National Access Test, wages for clinical course instructors, transportation and food for students traveling for internship and the placement of health students.
The bloc reiterated that “the priority is the quality of student training, which is why it is necessary to employ more doctors specializing in the SNS, value teaching in the medical profession and allocate appropriate wages for this role.”
Nurses
In the second round, with nurses, this was addressed as “essential to the dignity of their professional lives and work, in the interests of the NHS and users”.
Bruno Maia was clear about the bloc's intentions: “We want to increase nurses' salaries, offer more individualization and end quotas in evaluation and advancement.”
In Portugal, there are 7.4 nurses per thousand inhabitants, while the European average is 8.5. “We lack more than ten thousand nurses in the SNS,” says the head of the Bloco de Esquerda list in the Braga region.
“The profession of nurses has been systematically neglected. Low salaries, assessment quotas, vacancies obstructing advancement, and lack of recognition of specialists are some of the reasons why many nurses migrate or abandon the profession. The National Security Forces need them, the state has trained them, yet we are having difficulty retaining them. “We want to raise nurses’ salaries, offer more individualization and end quotas in assessment and advancement.”
Bloco de Esquerda also advocates the creation of a reference nurse for each family, a measure that should be accompanied by a review of the framework of skills and duties of these professionals, allowing family doctors to be freed from some of the functions that nurses can perform. Ability to perform.
The Left Bloc delegation included list leader Bruno Maia (a doctor), as well as Alexandra Vieira (a teacher) and João Carlos Macedo (a nurse and nursing professor).
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