Monday 1 September 2008

117) APMCH, Order and doctors unions come together in platform

The Portuguese Association of Hospital Doctors of Employment, the Order of Physicians and the two unions resolved the class create a platform for devising a common strategy against the current policy of health, was revealed.
"Rather than worry about denigrate the medical careers to the population, the Minister of Health should concern itself with existing structures in the system. It is the degradation of medicine that concerns us," said today the vice president of the Portuguese Association of Doctors Hospital of Employment (APMCH), Armando Rocha, the agency Lusa. According to the manager, by creating this structure the various organizations align themselves "in a common objective: the defence of the National Health Service [NHS]" and opposition to the current policy for the sector.
"There is a major concern of doctors in relation to the functioning of health in Portugal and the NHS, which is essential to provide a lead assistance to the population, there serious risks", said. The lack of capacity of hospitals in the training of internal and "misuse" of clinical services in emergency, to address the lack of doctors, are some of the criticisms made by the leader, who also expressed concerned about the trend towards privatization of health ".
To join in this structure, the various organizations expressed their "concern at the measures" adopted in the sector, and particularly with the possibility of finishing the careers medical "- also said Armando Rocha. In view of the vice president of APMCH, we need a restructuring of medical careers and the NHS.

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