In the letter addressed to João Lourenço, the Association for the Support of Angolan Patients in Portugal (ADAP) states that, in October last year, a medical commission mandated by the Ministry of Health was in Portugal, where it convened most of the joint patients in this parents.
The commission addressed "fundamentally", the "time of enjoyment of medical board, type of pathology, course of treatment and periodicity, as well as the condition of the patient's legality in the Portuguese State (residence or nationality)".
According to ADAP, which regrets that it was not heard in this investigation, after the visit of this Commission to Portugal, patients were "arbitrarily and randomly surprised by administrative discharge and compulsively, without the endorsement or consent of the local assistant physician, who accompanies the sick".
A measure that, according to ADAP, is being taken "without observing the periodicity of treatment, the complexity of the pathology, the degree of incapacity of the patient and the risks and consequences that may arise from this decision-making that can culminate in the worsening of the health status of the patient and eventually the death of the individual ".
In the letter addressed to João Lourenço, the association draws attention to the particular situation of hemodialysis patients, as well as patients with oncological, cardiac or transplant diseases, who need follow-up that they do not find in Angola.
The patients also accuse the health sector of the Embassy of Angola in Portugal to impose a term of commitment - without the signature of which they allegedly would not receive the overdue allowances - which considers them exempt from the board, "which means they stop doing it part of the Board without just cause ".
ADAP asks João Lourenço "to request a moratorium or revision of the decision taken, in order to avoid unpleasant situations and unpredictable consequences" and to proceed with "case by case analysis and assessment, depending on the pathology of patients who are able to return to the country, with guarantees of the continuation of medical and medication assistance ".
On Saturday, the Government announced the closure of the health board in Portugal, starting in February, after an audit which concluded that there were several abuses in the use of this mechanism.
