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The President of the Portuguese Association of Hospital Administrators accuses the Ministry of Finance of failings in Portuguese hospital services. Hospital Administrators, Alexander Lourenço, based on data from the Health Satellite Account In 2018, the SNS received only 4.3% of the country's wealth
Not during the high period of the crisis the percentage of gross domestic product ) dedicated to the provision of care in public health facilities was so small. "In 2019, clear signs of NHS defense must be given because this year we had the lowest budget in recent years as a percentage of GDP," he said. said Alexander Lourenço to Expresso, adding that it is necessary to "pass words to deeds" adding that "from the point of view of public spending, there must be clearly an investment in the NHS."
The President of the Portuguese Association of Hospital Administrators criticized the Ministry of Finance for the high costs of treating patients since the NHS is funded "by providers" and the delay in payments is reflected "in the cost of purchasing goods and services, from 5% to 10% "
According to Alexandre Lourenço, what we call the lack of doctors is, after all, a dispersion and resolves itself with the concentration of professionals and services, including emergencies. "There is no place in the world where, within a ten minute radius, there are four or five hospitals offering specialized services," says Alexandre Lourenço at the weekly
. of equipment inside, highlighting the absence of a mammogram in the Algarve, or commodities, the case of hydrogen peroxide to Evora. "There are unjustifiable inadequacies in drugs or in everyday use, it's absurd even under present conditions."
