PAN on Wednesday defended “the time has come” for health professionals who have been “dedicated to monitor” the pandemic to resume their duties, saying the country faces a “new way to confront” Covid-19.
“It is also a clear time for other health workers to be able to fully resume their duties, and professionals who have also been dedicated to monitoring this health crisis,” Bibiana Kona said, quoting as an example family doctors and health center nurses who “withdrew to provide emergency responses.”
The parliamentary leader of the PAN spoke to journalists at the Assembly of the Republic, in Lisbon, at the end of a meeting between the government, the President of the Republic, epidemiologists and public health experts, and parties represented in Parliament, by video link. .
“The message is clear that today we are facing a new way to confront this epidemic, to confront this health crisis, and that one of the main remaining tips is related to the fact that more importance is given to the severity of the disease than the number of infected people”He said.
The leader of the People-Animals-Nature party considered that “priority should be given to people at risk, that is, in relation to the promotion of vaccination”, that is, those “who are in a more vulnerable context”.
Noting that experts also referred to the “deep relationship between human health and environmental health”, Bibiana Cunha noted that this “was the rhetoric of PAN from the start”.
He noted that at today’s meeting, “it was very clear the need for environmental health technicians to do appropriate monitoring of water,” specifically wastewater, warning that “these technicians have been moved on to other types of tasks.”
He stressed that “from the network’s point of view, it is necessary to reinforce this message that the main thing at this stage is to monitor and prevent new health crises through political decisions,” noting that “this process did not achieve any health crisis.” It ended and will be monitored” and that” the proposal is left for monitoring every 15 days”.
Experts gathered today proposed easing measures against COVID-19, ending restrictions on access to shops, bars and clubs, with a mask only being mandatory in indoor public places, health services and transportation.
Experts, gathered at Infarmed, also suggest that use of the certificate is only for access to health services and recommend that outdoors, use of a protective mask is restricted to areas with high population density.
Today the Minister of Health considered Portugal in a new phase of the Covid-19 pandemic and acknowledged the easing of mitigation measures, with a new testing policy and a review of the mandatory mask.
Summing up the conclusions of the meeting, the Minister of Health said that it is possible to consider that the country is already in a new phase of the Covid-19 epidemic, although acknowledging that there are still many uncertainties, which opens the door to a review of the measures currently in place.
Specifically, Marta Temido mentioned a new testing policy, evaluating contexts in which mandatory use of a mask might fall and changing situations where presenting a digital certificate is required.
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