Hundreds of
thousands of Portuguese users are on the waiting list for consultation
of Dentistry through the National Health Service (SNS), which has only 58
dentists for all the attendances. The
professionals gathered this Saturday in Aveiro, at the 1st National
Meeting of Dental Medicine of the SNS, to discuss priorities in care.
The debate was part of an initiative of the Ministry of Health aimed at bringing together several dentists practicing in the SNS, in order to analyze working conditions, forms of access to consultation by users and the interconnection between different levels of care. We seek to create a consensus regarding the type of users to whom priority should be given, because, with the resources that exist, there are no conditions to meet all, said the member of the organization of the event, José Farias Bulhosa.
The debate was part of an initiative of the Ministry of Health aimed at bringing together several dentists practicing in the SNS, in order to analyze working conditions, forms of access to consultation by users and the interconnection between different levels of care. We seek to create a consensus regarding the type of users to whom priority should be given, because, with the resources that exist, there are no conditions to meet all, said the member of the organization of the event, José Farias Bulhosa.
The difficulties
in accessing the consultation are felt all over the country: in Baixo
Vouga, for example, there are 380 thousand users on the waiting list and
in Lisbon, there are doctors with 200 thousand potential users waiting
for it.
With regard to professionals, there are only 18 dentists in the continent, 11 in Madeira and 29 in the Azores, all without a clinical career, since the State considers them to be senior administrative technicians.
The size of the request for oral pathology is not a type of consultation where it is done for the first time, and the patient is discharged. Sometimes it takes scheduling of several queries to handle it, but we can not tell you to come after five years, because the list is quite large, explained Jose Bulhosa.
With regard to professionals, there are only 18 dentists in the continent, 11 in Madeira and 29 in the Azores, all without a clinical career, since the State considers them to be senior administrative technicians.
The size of the request for oral pathology is not a type of consultation where it is done for the first time, and the patient is discharged. Sometimes it takes scheduling of several queries to handle it, but we can not tell you to come after five years, because the list is quite large, explained Jose Bulhosa.
Many of the users who expect to be in the SNS are people who are economically fragile to access private care. Although there are equipment, these are stopped or underutilized because they do not open spaces for professionals.
Dentists acknowledge the attention given to the subject by the Government. However, they seek to avoid failures already noted in the pilot projects announced for the Alentejo and Tagus Valley. To this end, they intend to have a national and regional coordination carried out by people who have sensitivity to the Dental Medicine, preferably trained in the area, in order to reach the distinct realities of each service.
Dentists acknowledge the attention given to the subject by the Government. However, they seek to avoid failures already noted in the pilot projects announced for the Alentejo and Tagus Valley. To this end, they intend to have a national and regional coordination carried out by people who have sensitivity to the Dental Medicine, preferably trained in the area, in order to reach the distinct realities of each service.
Last week, the
head of the Order of Dentists, Orlando Monteiro da Silva, had already
appealed to the opening of vacancies within the public service: In a
country with so many deficiencies in access to oral health, it was
particularly common sense to take advantage of dentists underemployment, and place them serving the most needy population, within the SNS.
Monteiro da Silva spoke about the document Numbers of the Order 2016, which showed a 4.6% increase in the number of professionals enrolled in the Order, a growth considered much above the needs of the country and the WHO recommendation of a dentist for each two thousand inhabitants.
Monteiro da Silva spoke about the document Numbers of the Order 2016, which showed a 4.6% increase in the number of professionals enrolled in the Order, a growth considered much above the needs of the country and the WHO recommendation of a dentist for each two thousand inhabitants.
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