504. Oral health in Portugal 2010

• We continue with many people in front of decision-making powers (...) that influence the oral health policy, with an average age of retrograde mentalities that make Portugal continues in the tail of Europe in terms of oral health, much closer to the Third world than most developed countries, interested only in their own interests and making a clean sweep of what is the most elementary basic human rights of the population in terms of oral health. How much will the conscience of each one of these people see a child or adolescent victim of sheer neglect of oral health? Perhaps this fact is not to put their children or grandchildren.

Ends the year 2010 with little or absolutely no steps to amend the policy dismal oral health in Portugal, leaving the population increasingly difficult levels of oral health care in developed countries.

The persistence of the current team of the Ministry of Health in outstanding oral health services provided under the National Health Service, whose last example is in trying to end the career of doctors dentists in Portugal, a future prospect far worse access to care oral health of the population.

This atrocious policy of destruction of existing care (see for example the same hospitals, with Portuguese required to be born abroad, or for emergencies, forcing people to move more than fifty miles to be watched, often waiting more than twelve hours) lies directly on the population with fewer resources, paying the highest taxes in Europe but unable to use private services.

Associated with the political demagogue facilitating the rich bourgeoisie, organizations linked to the oral health sector do little or nothing to change the situation, embarking on a path to promiscuous government policies, thereby putting themselves at the service of wealthy bourgeois class could to pay large sums for treatments and leaving to chance the whole working population of middle and lower classes that, despite paying the highest tax rates of all European countries and contribute directly to the training of dentists in practice have no rights assists in terms of oral health.

The prevention of oral health in terms of primary health, are taken dropper under the circumstances, trampling the rights enshrined in the Constitution, without any minimum strategy for the future and openly criticized by the Court, by violating the equal constitutional rights.

Allied to the destruction of what remains of oral health in the National Health Service, the Ministry of Health liberalizing the entry of the private within the oral health often associated with foreign multinationals, which first put its desire to make money on the health of the Portuguese, acting independently of any priority public health needs.

The higher the health authorities of the country, namely the Directorate - General for Health, trample on sponsor brochures, photocopies or advertising, spending millions and millions of euros taken directly from funds that were to be delivered to dentists to treat their patients ; School Health in practice does not exist, leaving millions of children and young people who have luck in life.

Never heard the Directorate - General Health or Dental Association publicly defend the extreme urgency of an Oral Health Bulletin, particularly children and adolescents, to enable an effective policy for combating and eradicating child tooth decay in Portugal. They seem to prefer them to continue in it.

Nothing was in most urgent need to protect the oral health professionals within their working relationships with employers, leaving them at the mercy of unscrupulous crooks to exploit hand - to - cheap labor.

We continue with many people in front of decision-making powers, the Government, the Parliament and the industry organizations that influence the oral health policy, with an average age of retrograde mentalities that make Portugal continues in the tail of Europe in terms of oral health , much closer to Third World countries than more developed countries, interested only in their own interests and making a clean sweep of what is the most elementary basic human rights of the population in terms of oral health. How much will the conscience of each one of these people see a child or adolescent victim of sheer neglect of oral health? Perhaps this fact is not to put their children or grandchildren.