Miguel Guimarães, president of the Ordem dos Médicos, considers that the Winter plan for the pandemic is very conceptual and impractical.
In statements to the Good Morning Portugal, the official believes that the biggest challenges in the coming months will have to do with the response to non-Covid patients and seasonal flu.
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Miguel Guimarães also reinforces the need to seek help from the social and private sectors to answer these two challenges but also to the increase in cases of infection that has been registered. “We will need help from the social and private sector”, he reinforces.
The president of the Ordem dos Médicos also defended the importance of the so-called “rapid tests”, considering that they will make it possible to break transmission chains more quickly.
Finally, the official considers that the mask should be used in public outdoor spaces on busy streets, as it protects from Covid-19, but also from seasonal flu.
Situation in homes
Ana Rita Cavaco, President of the Ordem dos Enfermeiros, considers that the Government’s plan to face the second wave of the pandemic is globally positive, since it imposes a regular testing policy on health professionals.
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Also in statements to the Good Morning Portugal, the official considers that the issue of the operationalization of the plan will be the biggest problem in the coming weeks.
Ana Rita Cavaco warns of the flu period that is approaching, with many patients accumulating in health services.
The president of the Order of Nurses also states that there are not enough nurses, with more than 20 thousand of these Portuguese professionals working outside the country. The official considers that the shortage of nurses affects mainly in homes.
Use of outdoor masks
Jorge Roque da Cunha, of the Independent Doctors Union, points out that the winter plan to face an eventual second wave of the pandemic was made “on the back” of doctors.
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No Good Morning Portugal and RTP, the official also defended the mandatory use of masks, even outdoors, and a more significant penalty regime for infected patients who violate confinement.
Roque da Cunha also states that private hospitals should have been included in this plan and that the difficulties and lack of investment in health over the past few years are undermining the response that is given to the pandemic.
Fewer doctors
Noel Carrilho, president of the National Federation of Doctors, considers that there is a “growing departure from reality on the part of the Ministry and the minister”.
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In statements to the Good Morning Portugal, the responsible person states that there was not enough reinforcement of human reinforcements and that there was a shortage of doctors even before the pandemic.
“We have fewer doctors than at the beginning of the pandemic and that is why we cannot talk about reinforcement”, he points out.
“Situation has started to deteriorate”
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Ricardo Mexia, president of the National Association of Public Health Doctors, considers that the situation has already started to deteriorate with the increase in cases recorded in recent weeks.
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The official also considers that the reinforcement of the promised means has not been implemented in practice. –
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