INEM: Secretary of State for Health relativizes complaints and recognizes that the Government “was not expecting the impact” of the strikes

Replacing Minister Ana Paula Martins, who canceled her agenda due to an “indisposition” (according to information from her office), the government sent the Secretary of State for Health Management to visit two hospitals in the district of Coimbra. Asked about the increase in complaints regarding INEM’s response this year alone, Cristina Vaz Tomé reacted: “No, not just this year, I think the media is also a bit anemic. If you were paying attention, in recent years there have been several complaints; In fact, we have the data since 2019, so we don’t go back any further, and the waiting time we have for calls is equivalent to what we had in 2019, so there is no exaggeration here in terms of delays”.

Source: expresso.pt