The president of Santa Cruz City Council, Filipe Sousa, today denounced a situation that “harms all Madeirans” and which he calls “a total scandal”.
The mayor says, in his usual ‘Point of Order’, that he received a recording of a telephone call made during the campaign for the PSD’s internal elections, in which the Secretary of Health, Pedro Ramos, “called a militant, appealing to vote for Miguel Albuquerque”. “Up until now, the fact would not be correct in itself, but the way in which the call ends is proof of a total lack of shame, impunity and lack of ethics”, writes Filipe Sousa, who says that Pedro Ramos called the call saying: “this is my number too, so you can use it whenever you need your health.”
“So, in one fell swoop, we realized that Health in Madeira, where waiting lists proliferate, is accessible and has a private green lane for PSD activists and for those who have the secretary’s telephone number”, exposes the mayor, who says that health in Madeira “is a bargaining chip for partisan purposes”, that “those who govern us use health as their own thing, for their own political purposes and to maintain a Government that is rotten at its foundations, miserable in your