Health Services disease: easy diagnosis, difficult treatment Is the National Health Service still sustainable?60% of private deliveries are by Caesarean section, twice as many as in the SNS.43 public hospitals on the brink of collapse.More than two thousand family doctors are out of the SNS.Health Centres lack almost everything.Public hospitals suffer from ‘persistent underfunding.’ Centre-right […]
Driving issues in the local elections were housing, public health and education Portugal’s far-right, xenophobic, nationalist and biggest party in the country Chega (‘Enough’) – defending the reduction of state intervention in the economy, promoting stricter immigration, supporting chemical castration for child abusers and incessantly attacking the Roma population – has won its first three […]
Orcas sinking boats: annoyed or just playing? Orcas are known for two things: being very intelligent and being very ruthless.Last month, new incidents with orcas led to the sinking of a sailing boat just off Costa de Caparica (Lisbon) and damaging boats in Cascais Bay. It is the third boat sinking after confrontations with orcas […]
Lost in translation: hamburgers instead of citizens Last week CHEGA leader André Ventura and his party voted against President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa’s request to travel to Berlin for an official visit, including participation in the city’s Bürgerfest. Although other parties saw no harm in the visit, Ventura stated in Parliament: ‘You are approving a […]
‘Why work to see everything burned?’ ‘A person is always thinking,’ says António Barroso from Piódão, who doesn’t want to leave the land where fruit trees used to grow around the house. The fire burned everything, but his house was miraculously spared. ‘The house is all I have and the profit of a lifetime. Except […]
Portugal boasts ten official nature reserves The best places to find flamingos in Portugal is in the Algarve. While flamingos usually do not breed there, they make a stop in the wetlands of Portugal. Throughout the year, they can be seen in the Ria Formosa Natural Park – the impressive wetland spanning over 60 kilometres […]
Citizen initiative advocates reopening of the ‘Museum of the Art of the Sick‘ The Lisbon Municipal Assembly recently recommended the City Council to intensify negotiations with the Government for a reopening of the Museum of the Art of the Sick at the former psychiatric hospital Miguel Bombarda, following a petition from the Lx Citizenship Forum. […]
Violent crimes against children highest ever From sexual abuse to grooming, through pornography, rape and sharing of intimate images and harassment: reported sex crimes against children increased almost 50% in a period of three years (2022 – 2024), to a total of more than 5000 crimes, according to the Portuguese Victim Support Association (APAV). Of […]
‘Women who abort in Portugal can still be criminalized for it’ In Portugal, the voluntary interruption of pregnancy (IVG) carried out by a doctor, in an officially recognized health establishment and with the consent of the pregnant woman, is since 2007 not punishable in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy. Between 2007 – after the […]
The right to die with dignity Portugal’s earlier approved euthanasia law – published on the 25th of May, 2023 – is going nowhere. In fact, it is going ‘’back deep into the drawer’, writes Correio de Manhã, the country’s biggest and most popular newspaper. According to the approved law, people aged over 18 should be […]