Hello
I thank anyone or international entity that can help me. I need support. In Portugal there is no justice, and I need the support of human rights organizations. Please read the text and help me:
alves.saudeoral@gmail.com
I hereby direct me to you to explain, as possible, the questions for which answers and clarifications sought actually concrete. So then ask for some entities would be to provide me some information, or noticed that I was not clear enough or got answers that had absolutely nothing to do with the information I had requested.
So, to remove any doubt about the issues for which seek a total and complete enlightenment, the freedom of all first summarize as much as possible the vicissitudes through which he passed and that today raise me a whole series of questions for which I intend to answer enlightening and practical.
The crucial issue and relevant leads me to make this detailed description is related to the quality of care I have received oral health throughout my period of training, particularly among 80 and the end of my degree, which concluded at the University Lisbon.
Although you can make here other health problems, the substance is only relevant for me to do with the oral health care to (not) have been provided, which very question today and that I need now and as I hit I are and will make me definitely to mark the rest of my life, both physical and psychological. I know that you, with power of decision making and, therefore, with clear responsibilities in terms of oral health policy followed in Portugal, at least in the foal of 1975, I can carefully examine the issues and provide me the appropriate answer correctly .
As far as I remember, when I had oral health problems - I remember perfectly still walk on the lap of mother and already suffering from pain in teeth. I must clarify that my parents were farmers, my father and my mother is illiterate not completed primary education, my childhood was always in the interior, far from urban centers and better medical care. Sadly missed me, at that time, the initial provision of oral health care.
I lived with my family in a small town in the interior of the Alentejo: Alandroal - there was entered in the Health Center site, which was exactly what got the first oral health care. Then I will explain how it works: I know that I was given by the family doctor of the time (late seventies) to the query of "dentist" - the Health Center of Alandroal I remember moving a "dentist" in Elvas. Usually there were twelve to fifteen people to be served in a morning, when the dentist arrived this, go to form a single file and plays to take an injection (anesthesia) - I think the same syringe used to inject everyone.
Soon after beginning the extractions ... I do not remember any other consultation carried out there, is there were only extractions (no fillings, cleaning or other treatments). After two hours they were all "treated" and there would be but the "dentist".
I have my twelve or thirteen years, the treatments that the dentist made me this was only to extract teeth - never did an X ray or other type of oral treatment. If after ten minutes failed to draw me a root or a tooth, the dentist "marked a new query me for eight or fifteen days later, so a root more difficult to extract took sometimes three or four "sessions", ie more than a month to be extracted.
I do not know exactly because I tired of both go and never have finished the treatment (which consisted only in making extractions), also never saw that this "dentist" or had made any written record of the treatments that did - was all along, or they were children, adults or elderly. However, from 1980 began to suffer from tinnitus, which, unfortunately, still reside in my head 24 hours a day, 365 days a year (I do not know how far they have been caused by the treatments made by this "dentist" ; unfortunately traveled by many specialists in neurology and OTR but not one managed to suppress the symptom that causes me the tinnitus).
When I was fifteen years I have noticed that my friends of my age had their teeth treated - and then will ask my parents to let me go to Évora try to solve the problem of my teeth.
Drove me to the Hospital District of Évora, in receipt of the Hospital told me once that there were no vacancies for the consultation of dental (or dental). I remember very well that even after I spoke to the area of consultation and came to enter the office where they were installed the equipment for dental consultations, but there was not anyone. I was also a "dentist" who worked on the streets of the "Arcos" in Évora, unfortunately, I think made the biggest mistake of my life, as the "dentist" that I met told me I had to do more extractions before could do me a treatment for cleaning the teeth ... Possibly by all the trauma that had already passed the Health Center of Alandroal, then did not want to do more extractions.
Entered the University of Lisbon, the result of a scholarship.
Only able to enter the consultation of dentistry Medico-Social Services, University of Lisbon when he was in the 4th year of the University, unfortunately, too late to be treated as it should have been in early childhood.
As a result, suffered the greatest trauma of all time in my life, have to be forced to use dental - something that had yet been possible to avoid, I think, if the doctors who treated me since childhood had been so kind to want to the case because of my health.
Today I have the full consequence of that all by now, and particularly the brands that I have to load the rest of my life, shall be due, in large part, by the way of how nobody in health knew I treat as it should have been treated, I think just a little humility and common sense by all the entities that I mentioned that I had not fallen in what today are the physical and psychological that I have, unfortunately, support the rest of my life.
I have several questions, but they do not want to fall in deaf ears and that "fault" (to exist) simply die unmarried, answers when I return to say "Look, who can answer your questions and this is the entity about .... " My goal is simple: never get another couple in Portugal is the victim of so much contempt for the health care that are the various health authorities in our country (do not know the remorse that I have now when I cross almost daily, with pre-adolescents and young people in their age of innocence, are faced now with advanced tooth decay, or when I speak, showed the lack of teeth, despite their young age - that will have future in terms of happiness, they people? Will they go through the same ordeal I? How many adults, being aware of the facts, will continue to bury our heads in the sand and ignore the suffering of these children and young people for the rest of their lives?).
I do not think that if I were the son of a president of the republic, minister, attorney general, director-general of any public body, chairman of the Board or any Director, Clinical Hospital Center, the top military career, distinguished Mr knowledgeable of laws or any businessman, would have had all the necessary treatment and care throughout my childhood and adolescence. It, quite simply, I think we could occur in Portugal ...
Thus, taking full knowledge of the involved and responsible for the consequences that now have to bear is the only way to achieve some emotional balance and to stop the beautiful battle that is life, not in any way want to measure the effects of suffering, suffering and suffer forever by simply not having a natural smile normal, nor do I think and reflect on it meant to me in emotional and interpersonal relationships with other people. I am not able to provide all the reflections that I have in my future for health care, which (not) have and that, sooner or later, be direct reflection of how I was treated (disappoint whoever now, as adults, because I am not so naive as I was in childhood and adolescence, I am perfectly sure that in future I will be confronted with diseases directly caused by what I have and that I should take as given, in terms of care health).
Furthermore, I hope that I was the only trace of contempt of the national health service users, particularly by children and young people in the case of oral health, and that from today all have a right to a simple beautiful smile, without fear to see in the mirror. Fortunately this is possible - in the hands of anyone or have run on other people.
But I will never rest until they feel very well with me, I know that time does not go back and what I wanted for me today is impossible happen. But at least I want to be with me very well psychologically, this will only be possible in the day to find all the answers to my "why me?". These are questions that I get completely: why me and why? What evil have I done to the world to be like victims?
Here a list of questions I want to see answered and clarified once and for all, without subterfuge or indirect and inconclusive answers. The people there are, take positions and be fully accountable for functions that play or played (currently, the one year to five years or twenty years ago). I have every right to see and answered all my questions and to know why these things happened to me.
I do not want monetary rewards or someone go to jail for having failed to care that should have been me, I, yes, I say directly to me and how to take publicly responded to me in time to my requests for treatment.
Listed here are my questions, I hope that answers completely enlightening, arise quickly and are public, only then have some psychological comfort and will take the heavy burden of conscience that weighs about myself and at least make you never no child or adolescent is treated well in Portugal.
1.-What is the "dentist" who served in the Alandroal Health Center in the late seventies and during the eighties?
2.-What specific training (academic - university attended; professional - membership in the Order of doctors or dentists) that this "dentist" was to treat children and young people?
3.-What is the official authority which determined that such dental service in the Health Center?
4.-What is the institution that controls all the processing undertaken by the "dentist"?
5.-How can I now access to my personnel file that this "dentist" should have on me? (I do today, so relevant, to have full access to all the reports that the "dentist" has drawn on me)
6.-Who was the clinical director at the Center of Health Alandroal during the period in which this "dentist" there was consultation?
7.-Who was the Clinical Director of the Hospital District of Évora in the 80s?
8.-What are the criteria by which the Hospital District of Évora, in the 80s, so that children and young people could be found in consultation with dental or dental?
9.-What are the criteria that determine the care of Portuguese students in consultation with fellow dental or dental services Social-Medical University of Lisbon?
10.-What are the laws in force in Portugal, from 1975, with regard to school health? (I remember once I was asking for this clarification to Social Support Services of the Ministry of Education in Lisbon, and then received information that Portugal was the second country in the world to deploy the system in school health education.)
I am grateful to see all my questions answered, only be fully free and be me psychologically very well on the day and see everything clear, especially when I make absolutely sure that not another child or young person in Portugal will be neglected in terms of oral health. Because if there is any suffering it all, nobody can take me.
Because the smile is also good for health.
Well-there.
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The description of reality is made, and each was asked to assume its responsibilities in this case to a single fault does not die. Because, after all, still living in a state of law and why these things still happen in Portugal.
