2011-10-13

Government appoints new president of the ARS North

The Government has made, this Friday, Luís António Castanheira, and José Manuel Nunes Watermill Tereso for presidents of the regional health authorities in the North and Center, respectively, with terms of three years, announced the Ministry of Health

The Government has made, this Friday, Luís António Castanheira, and José Manuel Nunes Watermill Tereso for presidents of the regional health authorities in the North and Center, respectively, with terms of three years, announced the Ministry of Health in orders signed by Prime Minister, Pedro Passos Coelho, and the Health Minister Paulo Macedo, are also named two members for each of the ARS, but none is named vice president, as required by law, "given the urgent need to reduce public spending ". The Government justifies the reduction of the composition of the two ARS with the fact that it is "still in the process of rationalization of organizational structures and management positions in the Ministry of Health." In its order regarding the ARS Center, Passos Coelho, Paulo Macedo stressed that "the application is a priority in the short term, the Plan for the Reduction and Improvement of Central Administration (PREMAC) which will require the re-weighting the optimization of organizational structures and management dependent Ministry of Health. "For the ARS Northern vowels were named Ponciano Castanheira de Oliveira and Manuel Rui Afonso Pereira Moia Cernadas. For the ARS Center, members were appointed Fernando Lopes de Almeida Ramos and Luis Manuel Cabral Militao Mendes.