Friday, January 29, 2016

Alfredo da Costa Maternity no longer closes – TVI24

The South Central Administrative Court declared extinct action concluding the Alfredo da Costa Maternity (MAC), in Lisbon, and the transfer of services to the hospital D. Estefania, also in Lisbon, according to a court ruling released this sexta- market.

The South Central Administrative Court considered that there was an “objection of inadmissibility,” after the current Ministry of Health, directed by Adalberto Campos Fernandes, and those in charge of the Hospital of Lisbon Central Centre not having opposite, not answered, a requirement that the lawyer Ricardo Sá Fernandes joined the process in December 2015.

In the application, to which the Lusa agency had access, the lawyer states that “being in office a new government, it is the court to consider whether such purpose [of motherhood closing] remains within the framework established by the Executive earlier,” noting that it is “very likely, for what is common knowledge, that this is not the option of the current Government “ , led by António Costa.


Ricardo Sá Fernandes required so that current responsible for the Ministry of Health and by Central Lisbon Hospital Center were notified by the court to “say to keep the MAC closing purposes (…), so that, in the face of this information, it can assess the occurrence or not of a situation of uselessness supervening of the dispute “, namely that the process is now useless.

When checking that there was no opposing party opposition (Ministry of Health / Hospital Lisboa Central center), the judge judge rapporteur Antonio Vasconcelos considered that it was facing a “situation effectively adjudicate” the dispute with the “consequent extinction instance”.

With the end of the conflict that has dragged on since 2013 around the MAC, as a result of the decision now taken by the court, Ricardo Sá Fernandes welcomed, in a statement to Lusa, the fact that this case have had “a happy ending”, avoiding the negative consequences that the eventual closing of the MAC would have to Lisbon’s population.

Faced with the decision, the Ministry of Health told the Lusa agency that expressed the desire to “not proceed with litigation” surrounding this case.

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