Maternity Alfredo da Costa closure of suspended – TSF Online

The decision of the South Central Administrative Court has been taken following an appeal application by Ricardo Sá Fernandes.

The lawyer, who brought a class action to challenge the closure of the Alfredo da Costa Maternity (MAC) explains that after the new government took office, declared, under the current process, which ” the current government did not keep the purpose of closing the maternity “for, however, decided to wait for the construction of the new East Hospital and then transfer the MAC for this unit, then” action became useless. “

The court “ruled that the dispute had become useless,” said Ricardo Sá Fernandes

According to Ricardo Sá Fernandes, “neither the Ministry of Health nor the Central Hospital responded to the request” which led the court to understand that “had nothing to oppose to what was being asked.” In this sense, the court, “a change of position of the Ministry of Health and the Hospital”, understood that “was no longer necessary to continue the process.” In practice, is suspended the MAC transfer process to Hospital Dona Estefania.

If decision is not challenged “have a happy ending to this process” says lawyer

The Ministry of Health and the Central Hospital now have five days to appeal the decision. Contacted by TSF, the Ministry of Health shows that will also study the steps to be taken but in principle, will not appeal.