Lisbon hospital directors ‘hopping mad’ over PM’s remarks

The ‘damage control’ exercise conducted by PM António Costa in front of two television journalists (for TVI/CNN) has been backfiring since it was broadcast on Monday night. Today, newspapers remark that hospital directors of the Lisbon Central area “repudiate his remarks that Lisbon has a lot to learn from Porto in terms of the organisation of health services”. An Open Letter penned in outrage stresses hospital chiefs “cannot accept that the country has first class health professionals (in one area), and second class (in another)”…