502. Azores: Less health and poorer health

The boards of the three hospitals of the Azores are going to record the time delay of arrival to the emergency room doctors who are prevention, today announced the regional secretary of Health We provide guidance to boards of hospitals to proceed to registration calls for the prevention and recording the time at which the trader came to the emergency, Miguel Correia said, stressing that this is a measure of teaching.

Miguel Correia, who spoke at the opening session of the X Conference of General Practitioners, in Horta, Faial, responded this way to the defense that there has been in hospitals in the Azores, after the regional government had suspended partially medical preventions overnight in some specialties such as psychiatry, oncology and dentistry.

The regional secretary of Health stressed that for those who accuse the government of undermining the quality of service provided to users with these cuts in prevention, this is a measure that will definitely improve the quality of service. Miguel Correia also announced, to combat waste in the health sector, the creation of a working group that aims to create common rules in all health units in relation to medical prescriptions and the use of supplementary diagnostic.

The regional secretary of Health also noted that the Executive intends to create more regional health units in the island and family health units to combat the lack of general practitioners in the archipelago. According to Miguel Correia, the government also intends to increase the number of users per family doctor which is currently set at 1500 patients per doctor.

However, the clinical director of the Hospital of Ponta Delgada, Laurindo Frias said at the end of a meeting of the medical committee, which cuts in prevention adopted by the Government of the Azores were not accepted by the medical staff of the hospital. The meeting was marked by great defense and this team has a unanimous position that these measures can not go forward. Therefore, there will be nothing to collaboration that measures are implemented, the responsible clinician said, adding that he was told that the scale of next week is equal to the above.

It relates to the restrictive measures of prevention in some medical specialties determined by the regional executive, against which Laurindo Frias also manifested. I myself am against these cuts, always was, but now I'm more legitimate to say that I am against because they all have the same opinion, he said, admitting that it may be taken a position of strength after a meeting that goes to the direction of the clinical hospital. In this regard, he stressed that the medical commission is an advisory body to the medical director, adding that now will think about this with your team and then send the result to the board and guardianship.

The cuts in prevention of the specialties of Psychiatry, Plastic Surgery, Stomatology and Oncology at the Hospital of Ponta Delgada were implemented from 01 November and part of the package of restrictive measures of the Regional Government applied to the three regional hospitals.

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Desperate attempt of the Azores Regional Government to limit access to health care among the population. Clear demonstration of backward civilization.

501. President asks the regulator to be inflexible in licensing

At the opening session of the XIX Congress of the Dental Association, which runs until Saturday in Santa Maria da Feira, Orlando Monteiro da Silva said that these professionals lay a huge expectation in the new president of the Health Regulatory Authority, Jorge Simoes, who was present in the session.

In licensing, we must be inflexible requirements in health care, said Orlando Monteiro da Silva. Beyond this urgent need, identified another urgency that is properly fit the activity of insurance companies, conventions and subsystems, said.

The president of the Dental Association said it is essential that it is identifiable, clearly, what insurers pay or reimburse and conventions, so they can not confuse or even deceive their customers. We can not continue to have misleading advertising, publicizing acts free and packet procedures where supposedly everything is included, highlighted.

Orlando Monteiro da Silva later approached the issue of Health Regulatory Authority to charge fees that seem like a real tax to clinics and medical and dental services: We have had great difficulty in identifying the role of Health Services Regulatory Authority to justify this huge sum that all year is charged. The consequence is higher prices and costs, declining quality and a vision of health that will be increasingly seen as a business, he said.

Orlando Monteiro da Silva also defended the extension of the National Oral Health to more groups and warned of the need for replacement of dentists leaving the hospital when retirement and recruitment of dentists to the health centers of the most isolated regions of the country . Referring physicians of retirement age, the president explained that the specialty of dentistry is disappearing from public hospitals and that is tragic that these professionals are not being replaced by younger colleagues.

Minutes before, in his speech, the president of the Health Regulatory entities expressed readiness to work on strengthening citizens' confidence in dentistry in Portugal and to increase the feeling of safety, security and the needs of users, which is the main objective of all stakeholders in the health system.

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It is hoped that the words expressed by the president of the Health Regulatory Authority are not merely the circumstances, taking into account the breakdown of oral health in Portugal made ​​by past governments.

It's good to remember that all pay taxes to train dentists for our public universities, these same dentists must serve all Portuguese - that's why did the National Health Service.

The atrocity starring the Ministry of Health, oral medicine away to private enterprise and liquidating, for example, the specialty of dental public hospitals, is one of the most serious attacks on public health itself of its population. This policy has a face, the current team of the Ministry of Health.

500. Vacancies for stomatology in 2011

In January next year, health centers throughout the Northern Region will begin training 162 family physicians. Within four years, the interns will be specialists in family medicine and will cover a population of 243 000 users. The vacancies for additional internship in the specialty of family medicine represent a third of the total.

Vacancies by specialty were opened as needed now and in coming years of retirement medical service. To Stomatology and Imunohemoterapia not open vacancies for training doctors.

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In six months the Hospital de Leiria spent over 1 400 000 euros and contracting services to physicians, which translates into an increase of more than 665 000 euros compared to the expense of 2008. The hospital costs justifies the increasing needs assistance to more users.

In defense presented in the audit of the TC, the Hospital de Leiria justify the hiring of more medical services because of the small number of doctors serving the HSA, including a doctor in the specialties of Otolaryngology, Stomatology and Radiology, alongside the increased need for assistance health, with the growing number of users and to practice medical procedures. The HSA advances also have been complied with the guidelines circulated by the Chief Executive [Department of Health].

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For the Portuguese understand the true policy of the current team of the Ministry of Health: extinguish the medical specialty of dentists in the National Health Service in the coming years. Years from now we must go foreign to have a dental consultation.

It is regrettable that the Order of Dentists and the Portuguese Society of Stomatology and Dental Medicine do little or nothing for yet another fierce attack on the National Health Service and health of the Portuguese, who had not occurred during the Estado Novo. Private interests or other games?

499. GAIA: With knowing smiles

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The Clínica Médica Jardim, da Consolidar e Validar - Center for Health Sciences, is conducting free dental care to about one hundred and fifty children living in social enterprises in Vila Nova de Gaia and who attend the project with the Fun Knowledge - Mathematics Meetings. This comes in the wake of the surveys already carried out nearly four hundred children, aged 8 to 12 years, under the project Strengthening the Know with a Smile Valer, resulting from a partnership between GaiaSocial, MES and the Consolidar e Validar.

On behalf of the city and especially on behalf of children who are being treated, strongly manifest a deep appreciation for the exemplary and selfless manner in which the Clínica Médica Jardim has embraced this project, said Marco Antonio Costa, Deputy Mayor of Gaia in the celebration ceremony of the protocol that defines the conditions for project implementation Consolidate knowledge with a smile worth signed by Andre Correia, President of the Board of GaiaSocial, and António Faria, responsible for the Clínica Jardim. The Deputy Mayor referred, in fact, implemented the project for about four years among children living in social enterprises and Gaia aimed at equal opportunities and social cohesion at the level of learning mathematics.

This project became a Trojan horse that allows us to observe the behavior of children in order to intervene quickly and ensure that everything is done for the sake of their academic training, on an equal footing with other children, Marco António Costa stressed. At a time when so much is said of the welfare state and National Health Service, we have a total and absolute evidence of an irreparable taint the national health service, said the Deputy Mayor, warning of the risk of these children can never have the opportunity to be treated by a dentist if it were not for the altruism of António Faria, responsible for the Clínica Jardim.

These are small gestures like this that can make a difference, he said. Marco António Costa announced, incidentally, that the City of Gaia will take the initiative to contact the EDP Foundation to try to reconcile this project with a program developed worldwide. António Faria showed the willingness of Clínica Jardim to materialize the social responsibility inherent in partnership with GaiaSocial and announced the continuation of the project Strengthening the Know with a Smile Valer, necessary consultations shall be held to finalize the processing of all situations.

António Faria launched the challenge to the 800 dentists Portuguese colleagues to contribute also to the social reintegration of the most disadvantaged children. Give as little of us has an immeasurable value, he said. Based on how the project is underway, the charge of the clinic expressed full readiness to participate in future activities, in partnership with the City of Gaia.

The implementation of the project Strengthening the Know with a Smile Valer fits the constant concerns of the municipality for the dignity of the human person, the family support and personal appreciation of the citizens living in social enterprises. The Municipality of Gaia is committed to strengthening the social support measures to the most disadvantaged families to minimize the difficulties and sacrifices resulting from the economic crisis in the country, promoting and encouraging other projects aimed at social cohesion.

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498. Portugal, a country with no future

The televising of football friendly match between teams from Portugal and Spain in promoting the implementation of the application Iberian World Cup football in 2018, is a further injection ideological inflicted on society by a Portuguese bourgeoisie affects the political system , which obtained the blessings to support yourself and live off the exploitation of the middle classes and poor who constitute the overwhelming majority of its population.

It is incomprehensible that a country heading for bankruptcy and economic bankruptcy, insist on promoting deplorable performances of 22 people chasing a ball, involving sums in the order of several billion euros, when hundreds of thousands of children and teens will never have any chance of proper accompaniments primary health, and particularly the possibility of having access to proper oral health.

It is extremely regrettable that political power (government, Parliament and President of the Republic) forget the systematic violation of children's rights and do nothing to change the status of oral health in Portugal, preferring to spend tens of billions of euros in useless and not caring about the suffering of innocent people and needy.

It is extremely unfortunate that, at those times, organizations engaged in the oral medicine in our country do nothing to denounce the situation, both in Portugal and abroad, including the FIFA itself, preferring to keep everything the same and showing a mentality of a backward country without any interest in contributing to give a solution to the problem of oral medicine in Portugal.

It is extremely regrettable that there is almost no promotion in Portugal as part of scientific research in the fight against oral diseases.

It is extremely unfortunate that economic interests outweigh the interests of the health of children and adolescents.

Portugal is truly a country with no future for coming generations; 700,000 Portuguese emigrated in the last 10 years.

497. AIDS patients are enjoying the dental checks

A resolution from the tutelage of Health, published in the Official Gazette, gives the extension of dental checks for patients with AIDS. The patients concerned, to take advantage of the program need to be properly referenced by their family doctor.

The Government has decided to extend the program taking into account the substantial risks to oral health problems that HIV / AIDS represents. The program has included pregnant women, elderly and needy children and youth from public schools until age 16.

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A crumb in the ocean of oral health needs of the population, clearly the shameful actions of the central government, which prefers to help people so socially irresponsible.

This continues the policy of oral health in the Ministry of Health,shameful, demagogue and without any discrimination by the real needs of those who work and pay taxes, but they have no right to oral health in Portugal.