Correia de Campos ensures collaboration
with professionals of the sector
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"I can assure that we are completely open and available to collaborate with you and discuss matters as the basic package, the establishment of a future Convention [of the National Dental Medicine] and the opening of Hospitals National Health Service (NHS) as proposed in the name of improvement the oral health of the Portuguese", said the Minister of Health, at the ceremony of swearing in of the new social organs of the Order of Dentists (MDGs) in Porto. At the meeting, held in the Stock Exchange Palace, Correia de Campos spoke of the success of the National Program for Promotion of Oral Health for the infant-juvenile population and that for this year has reflected "five million euros".
The governor said that "will not be the argument of lack of resources that will prevent program continue", despite admitting that "this support has increased so slow, however systematic and sustained up to say," given the results of some studies for cost benefits. The chairman of the MDGs, Orlando Monteiro da Silva, meanwhile sworn - and that will be ahead of the destinations of the Order until 2009 - reiterated that her main tasks is to "integrate the services of dentistry in the National Health System (NHS), to make it available to all Portuguese. "
According to the report, the vast majority of the Portuguese population has no access to dental services and contracting for dental practitioners with the public services "solve this problem. In that sense, thanked the opening of the Minister of Health and his ministry in "hear" the proposals of the Order, such as "payment of a moderating rate, to enable users to access to the NHS consultations."
O Primeiro de Janeiro
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