Tuesday 9 December 2008

159) The complete absurdity of the current policy of oral health in Portugal

In Portugal there are seven faculties of Medicine and Dentistry are being trained doctors in excess numbers, moving up - warned the president of the OMD - for "unemployment". The warning from Orlando Monteiro had the intention to reinforce the need for "political intervention".
The president noted, moreover, that "there are already more than 140 dentists Portuguese to exercise the function in the NHS from other European countries [England and Holland, for example]." As in the rest of the European Union there is this specialty in public health service and present shortage of dentists. The explanation of the relocation is not a free choice, but an alternative to economic difficulties that prevent these professionals to open their own clinics (only chance to practice in Portugal).
Again, the situation would minimize the introduction of specialty in public service.
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Black and white: it is wide spend thousands and thousands of euros of our taxes to train specialists who treat patients go abroad, where it is denied by our assistance to the NHS wide hundreds of thousands of children, young and old Portuguese for something like bread for the mouth.
Indeed, urges change whatever it is to put the final point in the trivialization of the person who runs practiced by the state.
Gerofil

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