Tuesday 18 November 2008

153) Mr. Antonio Goncalves wants clarification on health care in Flores

The member of the PSD Antonio Maria Goncalves, elected by constituency of Flores, expressed its concern regarding the provision of health care on the island. In the application tabled Regional Assembly, the parliamentary emphasizes that "the inhabitants of the island do not have access to some health care essential," and who recently questioned the Government on the status of the machine for imaging in the existing Health Center site, because "it presents no technical conditions of reliability as a supplementary means of diagnosis to be obsolete."
Antonio Goncalves says that the executive foresaw "the purchase and installation of a new unit of" X-ray "digital for the Health Center of Santa Cruz das Flores until the end of 2006", which is not turned out and motivates the question now presented. Concerning the Public Health Service Oral practiced in their island, he stressed that "the medical dentist who has moved to the island for the provision of primary health care of those unable to meet all the demands placed upon it because of its large number ", and" the inhabitants of the island have no other option but to resort to the provision of private services in the area, which involves huge costs for the family budget. " Further, "a first visit to oral health could mean a wait of more than four months, with access to the list made so bureaucratic and constrained by the second consultation, which is the dentist recommends medical treatments by following the same insiders.
Antonio Goncalves is whether there is knowledge of these realities and that government measures will be taken to modify the existing situation.

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