Once again, despite being outside the country, the President of the Republic referred to the celebration of the 43rd anniversary of the National Health Service (SNS) with a message of congratulation “to all health workers”, but also indicated anticipation about the changes taking place, hoping that it would ensure “a path of Excellence”.
“Today, 43 years after the establishment of the National Health Service (SNS), one of the greatest achievements of our democracy, which guarantees a real right to health, the President of the Republic wants to congratulate its founders and pioneers, who mobilized the country to assemble, multiply and strengthen the health units, as well as, on the face of Especially, all her health professionals, which congratulate her for the commitment and generosity with which they daily take care of their fellow citizens,” the first paragraph reads. note.
Recalling that last March, the SNS was awarded the Order of the Military Tower and Sword, of courage, loyalty and merit, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa emphasizes its “importance in improving everyone’s health” and its main characteristic – an unjustified character” and refers to it as “a unifying element of the Fatherland”.
In the end, he leaves out his expectations regarding “the urgency of its development to ensure a path of excellence in responding to the challenges of present and future times.” A message full of meaning and time, at a time when the new SNS system was approved, with important changes in its management and operation, and the regulations of the President of the Republic on his desk to issue.
But also at a time when the new Minister of Health, Manuel Pizarro, has just been sworn in, and the options of his Ministers of Foreign Affairs and, above all, the Executive Director of the SNS await the new operational management position recently created under the SNS Statutes about which the President of the Republic has expressed reservations in its release.
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