The hearing of the former President of the Assembly of the Republic is scheduled to begin at 2:00 PM and will take place on the same day as that of the president of the National Authority for Medicines and Health Products (Infarmed), Rui Santos Ivo, who will be heard afterwards.
Rui Paulo Sousa also indicated that former Health Minister Manuel Pizarro will be heard on the same day as his predecessor, now a PS MEP, Marta Temido, on September 27.
Former Justice Minister Francisca Van Dunem will be heard on October 11.
The former secretary of ex-Secretary of State António Lacerda Sales will be heard on September 20. Carla Silva requested to be heard behind closed doors, which will be considered by the committee members in a meeting of the board and coordinators the week before.
Tiago Jorge Carvalho Gonçalves, former chief of staff of Lacerda Sales, will be heard on October 4.
Three days earlier, on October 1, the hearing of Mário Pinto, former health advisor to the Presidency of the Republic, is scheduled.
The parliamentary inquiry committee on the case of the Portuguese-Brazilian twins treated at Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon will resume work after the parliament’s holiday break on September 13.
Former Deputy Secretary of State for Health Jamila Madeira will be heard on that day, which is also the scheduled date for the hearing of the former Portuguese consul in São Paulo, and current ambassador in Beijing, Paulo Jorge Nascimento.
At issue in the process, which has former Secretary of State for Health Lacerda Sales and Nuno Rebelo de Sousa, son of the President of the Republic, as defendants, is the hospital treatment of two Portuguese-Brazilian children who received the drug Zolgensma. With a cost of two million euros per person, this drug aims to control the spread of spinal muscular atrophy, a neurodegenerative disease.
The case is still being investigated by the Attorney General’s Office, but the General Inspection of Health Activities has already concluded that the access to the neuropediatric consultation for these children was illegal.
An internal audit of Santa Maria Hospital also concluded that the scheduling of a first hospital consultation by the Secretary of State for Health was the only exception to compliance with the rules in this case.
