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.
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