As I was watching RTP this afternoon, I happened to stumble upon a clip that was quite interesting. It was centered around protests of transportation for non-urgent patient transport. This is a big issue because most of the patients that require this transportation are below the poverty line and can barely afford food to eat at the end of the day. According to the spokesperson of the Commission (State of Health), the cuts would apply to those who can barely afford 250 to 350 euros per month. Most of the patients are elderly and either retired or simply cannot work. The cuts also apply to the volunteer firemen, cutting their daily services from 15 to one. Overall, they (State of Health) are increasing the requirements to have access to public transportation for the sick and/or elderly. The protesters stated that if nothing was done the protests would increase.
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| Ana Jorge |
On Friday the Minister of Health stated that the expenses of the state had fallen 6.6 percent from the same month of 2010. This has been implemented mainly to help the state save money, roughly 45.5 million euros.
“The spending behavior of SNS in January 2011, demonstrate an overall reduction of 6.6 percent compared to January 2010,” said Ana Jorge.
In the Azores, an RTP building caught fire on Friday night. Luckily the building was not being used at the time. No deaths were reported but a fireman was injured during the process of the fire fight. The location used to be the headquartes for RTP but was still owned by them. Sparks seemed to be the cause of the fire but nobody knows.
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