Today, the president of Ordem dos Enfermeiros considered the reappointment of Marta Temedo as Minister of Health a “disgrace”, considering that if she did not change course, she would “be listed in history as the worst minister” in the field.
“We will always continue to help, but she is someone who, if she does not correct her course, will go down in history as the worst health minister,” Anna Rita Cavaco told Lusa news agency.
After deeming the reappointment of Marta Temedo “a regrettable”, the president stressed that the first time the minister was appointed, he gave Ordem dos Enfermeiros (OE) “the benefit of the doubt, but this has been a very difficult path”. “.
“She was a minister who didn’t talk to anyone,” stressed Anna Rita Cavaco, arguing that Marta Temido “never wanted to discuss nurses’ competence training and not a single reform of the National Health Service” (SNS).
For Ana Rita Cavaco, Portugal still has “the worst indicators in the number of nurses”, rising from 6.7 to 7.1 per thousand inhabitants due to the Covid-19 epidemic, when the OECD average is 8, 7.
For the chairman, a deep reform of the SNS funding method is needed, “which can focus not on hospitals”, but on primary and community health care.
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