On Saturday, March 29, PS, March 29, defended the need to work in the field of health and social together to improve the quality of the life of the elders and reduce or contain health care expenditures.
“We have to change the model and the relationship between the health sector and the social sector. Health and social security can no longer walk in their back,” he said.
In his intervention for more than half an hour, in the general offer of Coimbra PS candidates, which occurred late in the afternoon, Pedro Nuno Santos It has shown that the health and social sector “should work together.”
For hundreds of militants who filled the Centro De Portugal wing, the socialist leader pointed to the reality of the average life expectancy of Portuguese to be wider, and in 2050, about 40 % of the population was over 65 years.
“This has consequences No sns (National Health Service) In the way we deal with the elderly in our country. “We did not properly prepare the country or health for an elderly community,” he said.
In his opinion, Portugal “is far from giving dignity and caring for those who built the country,” indicating the need to do “proximity.”
“Although they can be in their homes, which is less expenses for the social state and NHS itself. We need to have teams near society that accompany our elderly, who accompany chronic patients, who accompany those who need long -term care,” he said.
second Pedro Nuno SantosThis is also a way to reduce disease rings and resort to hospitals.
He said: “It is possible to improve the quality of the life of our elders at the same time that we reduce our bill, or at least we have an increase in health care expenses. Respect and dignity, but with positive health consequences.”
Throughout its intervention, Secretary -General From PS, the message also left even “Do not wander with the general retirement system”, which says it is “very appetite” for the private sector that generates pension funds.
“Each one is to deduct what they understand from a special point of view. But the public system of our pensions in Portugal is a virtuous construction of solidarity between generations, we must share, preserve, preserve and defend it,” and concluded.
