The socialist and founder of the National Health Service (SNS) Antonio Arnaut would like the share of the State Budget for 2011 to increase and focus on health care facilities and in oral medicine. A month and a half for the Government to present the Budget for 2011, Antonio Arnaut aspire to Lusa news agency says that the budget for health (about 1 / 6 of the state budget, not reaching nine billion euros) is increased, but not only to improve the NHS.
He has to be improved, but can be improved regardless of the money because there are services that can spend less and work better advocates. For the social background, the increase should focus on enhancing the network of continuing care and palliative care, which is now spread across the country, and the creation of another oral medicine, which is virtually nonexistent.
There are already checks dentists for pregnant women, children and elderly, but it should be moving towards the creation of a valence of oral health, which is very important, not just to have beautiful teeth and functional, but to prevent other diseases, he says.
On the other hand, observes the former Minister of Social Affairs, at the time of crisis we live, the social sector must be strengthened to compensate for the inequalities that now aggravated by unemployment and other precarious situations.
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These wise words illustrate the current bleak picture of oral health in Portugal, the responsibility of governments past and with the full connivance of the Directorate - General for Health and, in parallel, installed in groups with interests in the sector.
The drastic difference in which we live today in access to dentistry between the wealthy bourgeoisie and the illustrious rulers of the state apparatus of the regime, against overwhelming majority of the population voted to contempt and without rights, reminds us that Portugal is closer to of poor and underdeveloped countries than their European Union partners in terms of oral health.
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