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DECO supports tougher checks on private clinics
Jorge Morgado, secretary of the Portuguese consumer defence association (DECO), is all for more checks on the private medical sector as he does not consider it offers an alternative to the national health service (SNS) – contrary to what is marketed “so often by opinion makers” and “politically-biased authorities”.
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He pointed as an example to the case of three patients blinded by operations performed at the private eye clinic in Lagoa, «I-QMed».
Morgado stressed that checks on this kind of establishment “cannot only be done after there are complaints and incidents.
If clinics knew they would be checked, they would stop making contracts with pseudo-radiologists and apprentices.
They would start hiring proper qualified professionals”.
“ASAE (the food hygiene and economics authority) does not require complaints before they do their job”, he said, adding that laws relating to private health establishments have still not been updated according to amendments published in 2009.
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