The first general woman in Portugal takes charge of the Armed Forces Hospital – Society

Colonel Regina Mateus took office Monday as Director of the Armed Forces Hospital (HFAR), being the first woman to hold a general officer position in the armed forces, said the army on Monday.

Colonel Regina Mateus will take the current position and "will be promoted", being the first female general officer in the armed forces, told the Agency Lusa source of the-state Major General of the Armed Forces

Regina Mateus, Physician, replaced Brigadier General António Lopes Tome in the direction of HFAR

Promotion depends on vacancies in the Air Force and the Air Force. Government authorization. The captain of war and war, Manuel Ribeiro, took office as deputy director of the hospital, replacing Luís Santos Carvalho.

Colonel Regina Mateus was born in 1966 in Maputo. He attended the Medicine Course at the University of Coimbra, completed in 1991. He entered the Air Force 24 years ago, being the oldest Colonel of the Armed Forces.

She was placed in the former air force hospital, now HFAR, and then followed the aeronautical medicine course. He completed his postgraduate internship in general surgery and graduated as a hospital assistant in 2002.

In 2003, he led the military health team present in the fiscal year of Tactical assessment of NATO at Ovar and participated in several missions of the Atlantic Alliance. Force Protection Evaluator "in Portugal, Greece, Turkey and Spain.

He ran the health center of Monte Real Air Base and the Air Force Aeronautical Medicine Center.