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Health · Funchal · 6 November 2026

Socialists hold parliamentary sessions on barrier-free healthcare

The PS Parliamentary Group is hosting a Saturday session on chronic problems facing Madeira's regional health service.

The Socialist Party's Parliamentary Group is holding parliamentary sessions titled "Barrier-Free Healthcare" this Saturday, 7 November 2026, at 10:00, at Espaço IDEIA, next to the Madeira Legislative Assembly.

The initiative aims to bring together professionals from different fields to identify responses to the chronic problems of the Regional Health Service.

Invited speakers include Lídia Ferreira of the Independent Doctors' Union, Juan Carvalho Ascensão, president of the Madeira Nurses' Union, nurse Mathieu Santos from mental health at Hospital dos Marmeleiros, dentist Luís Filipe Correia, and Diana Silva, representing the Order of Nutritionists in Madeira.

The opening will be given by PS-M president Célia Pessegueiro and the closing by Parliamentary Group leader Paulo Cafôfo.

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