SNS in crisis: FNAM meets National Council in Coimbra
The National Federation of Doctors (FNAM) has called its National Council for an extraordinary meeting next Saturday, May 10, between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm, at the national headquarters, in Coimbra, with the aim of defining firm responses to the crisis that the National Health Service (SNS) is going through.
The FNAM intends to outline an action strategy in view of the worsening conditions in the NHS, marked by the increase in the number of users without a family doctor, successive closures of emergency departments, births carried out in ambulances and increasing difficulty in accessing health care.
“The main objective of this meeting is to analyze the dramatic situation of the SNS in Portugal and to outline a firm and articulated response strategy for the new political cycle that is approaching”, can be read in the statement sent to the press.
One year after Minister Ana Paula Martins took office, the FNAM “denounces the worsening conditions of access and quality of health care, the result of a government marked by incompetence and refusal to engage in dialogue with doctors”.
“Today we have more patients without a family doctor, more services closed, more births carried out in ambulances and worse access to healthcare”, the federation highlights. The FNAM also warns that, if the same political choices are maintained, “there is a real risk of the collapse of the NHS, with serious consequences for millions of citizens”.
During the meeting, a course of action will be drawn up to resume, as a matter of urgency, the negotiation process with the next head of the Ministry of Health, demanding concrete measures to stop the departure of doctors and ensure an effective response to the needs of the population.
FNAM reiterates that “improving doctors’ working conditions is an essential condition for the recovery of the NHS. Without doctors, there is no NHS”.
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