Portugal guarantees medical treatment despite restrictions on pharmaceuticals
Lisbon, 27 feb ( EFE).-the Ministry of health Portugal assured today that there will be no interruption in treatment current doctors or future applied in the National service ( SNS) health, despite the fact that the pharmaceutical company Roche decided to suspend their sales on credit to 23 public hospital in the country. “The NHS will find alternative solutions, even with other distributors,” said today in a statement the Ministry, whose owner is Paulo Macedo. Public medical centres will continue to offer, “always to be justified”, drugs from Roche, according to the statement. Furthermore, the pharmaceutical company reported today a note in Portugal in which it expresses its intention to suspend loans to 23 hospitals in the Portuguese public network with arrears in the payment of debts exceeding 500 days. The Swiss multinational, whose main Portugal area is Oncology, recalled that NHS centres owed him more than 135 million euros – apart from the interests of delay priced at around 6 million – and have an average delay of 420 days. Company, which justified the decision by the implementation of a new trade policy, pointed out that in some cases they exceed the 1,000 days “in clear breach of the payment period of 60 days”, and commented that it will ensure the sale of medicines only to units that meet the payments in time. The Ministry of health luso...
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