A total of 7,465 the 9,000 cancer patients identified in the Health Emergency Plan underwent surgery between May 18 and June 21 – 98% of them on the SNS public health service, Minister of Health Ana Paula Martins announced today. The surgeries were carried out as part of the ‘extraordinary surgical programme OncoStop2024’, created by Portugal’s AD government to reduce waiting lists. Ms Martins has always stressed the urgency of cancer surgeries, saying “every day of delay waiting for surgery is a day of enormous uncertainty and suffering”. Receiving the news, PS MP Mariana Vieira da Silva commented that “once again” these are numbers the PS cannot evaluate.
More than 7,400 cancer patients operated on in space of month
