Pedro Nunes: “It starts to be extremely dangerous to live in Portugal”
How did you see the plan announced by the minister, both in terms of short-term measures as well as more medium and long-term measures?
At the moment, I’m a doctor, I work in my hospital, I run a service that I’m very proud of in the collaboration of all those who work there, but I don’t know what measures are being taken. But for the time I have, to know, for what I have heard and for what I have doubts, for what I have to have heard and at least seen that I no longer have time to spend the sun with the single sieve to cover the sun with the sieve , even to cover the sun with sieving. media is no longer interested in everything continuing on the sliding ramp.
For example, no one is saying at the moment that for several years now, only one hospital in Lisbon, alternately Hospital de São José and Hospital de Santa Maria, performs ophthalmology emergencies at night and on weekends. When I was young, all hospitals do emergency room evenings on weekends. That was, until we got to a more dangerous area, certainly. Childbirth does not choose hours. And unless a technical drift is performed and cesarean section begins at the selective moment of the moment, it is not possible to abdicate an obstetric emergency in conditions.
At the moment, the obstetric emergency is limping across the country, but much more things are limping. For example, there are no anesthesiologists. The National Health Service does not have anesthesiologists. The two operative services have to work with one and not every day of the month, because the anesthesiologists, the few anesthesiologists and some with few anesthesiologists and some who are also old enough to be retired and continue to selflessly work in the National Health Service, they are working endless hours in the Emergency Department to support. As they get tired and leave and are legally requesting their retirement, or even the younger ones who go abroad, to the toilet.
to be extremely dangerous in Portugal and that is what needs to be said clearly Start. Measures have to be substantive measures that reverse these problems and solve these problems in the medium-long term. Contingency measures to resolve the summer to make sure that everything is fine, normally, it does not have a good prognosis, but, in the end, it is up to those responsible for this who are responsible – as I say to you, at this moment I have no responsibility. . This is the opinion of an observer who is inside, who continues to work in the National Health Service and who unfortunately sees to what extent, when the time comes to need the National Health Service, as a patient, he will not have what he throughout life was built.
An idea of the ideas that can be, can be eventually managed, work and hire the foreigner. It is possible to make foreign doctors. And does it make sense to consider this? Or is there, in fact, looking for doctors in Portugal that we can fill those places instead of going abroad?
To go abroad, the requirements are that you do not have the foreigner. What has so far is exactly the opposite. They are Portuguese, who have a very, very good good, because the National Health Service continues to ensure excellent training for intern doctors, these doctors are of immediate training, enticed to go abroad. I have an intern of mine working in Strasbourg, very well paid and doing that that I couldn’t do.
Therefore, in order to revert, in order to enter the competitive market and seek doctors abroad, it is necessary to provide the best working conditions, or that would not be, shall we say, difficult, because the National Health Service, despite everything, is quite well equipped and has very good traditions of scientific knowledge. But in addition to these conditions, say, scientific technicians, there were various economic conditions. In these, Portugal is leagues away.
I can say that a newly graduated specialist doctor in France earns five times more than a service director at the top of his career in Portugal. So if it’s possible, it’s possible. You need to find the money for them to pay.
Maybe, with less than that and with intelligence and with some knowledge that it is something that seems to me that people have a few years in this part, some institutions of power tend to have arrogance and forget to listen to listen to others . I, at least, have read that during the trade unions and the Ordem dos Médicos several were not heard by the Ministry of Health and, therefore, if as people who have the knowledge and knowledge before hearing, it may not be possible to find as correct measures to solve the problems.
Of course, it is always possible, if you have a lot of money, to solve the problem. Now, not only am I doubtful that Portugal has that much money, but also that it has enough money to be able to reach doctors from other countries to come to Portugal. Other countries, such as England, have sought and are giving them as doctors to these countries, conditions for professional development and paying good salaries. And so, evidently, the health systems of these countries have not yet collapsed.