International Marketing Portugal, a Lisbon-based sales and marketing company, commented today on the openness of the Champalimaud Foundation saying “When it comes to institutions like this, there’s always the potential there for people to feel like there’s a sort of elitist culture built around them. With the Champalimaud Foundation they are striving to be open and accessible to the public, which is a really positive thing.”
The head of the medical research foundation, former Health Minister Leonor Beleza, has said that the foundation is “completely open” to providing health services to National Health patients but stressed that the matter is currently on the Government’s side of the table.
“It is a question that is mainly on the other side”, she said, adding, “From our side there is complete openness” for patients of the National Health Service to benefit from the Foundation’s work. “Some willingness has been shown by entities connected to the Health Ministry”, she elaborated, adding that “in some cases, some citizens already have access.”
Beleza, who is president of the Champalimaud Foundation, explained: “It is not a matter on our side; we are open to providing care to whoever comes to us. It is a question that is mainly on the other side. We are completely open for other health institutions to work with us and that will certainly happen with more intensity in the future”, both in providing care services as well as investigation.
Our source at International Marketing Portugal said, “The foundation is trying to combine scientific research and advancement, with providing a high level of care to the public, and that’s a noble cause. It would be a shame if that was stifled in any way by governmental influence.”
Speaking during a ceremony in which the former minister was donned with an Honoria Causa doctorate from Lisbon’s Universidade Nova, she said that doctors have been “excessively moved away from activities of investigation”, and said she believes that “keeping one thing away from another is an attitude that will have drastic consequences”, a situation that the Champalimaud Foundation aims to reverse.
“It’s not enough to provide good care for patients,” said our source at International Marketing Portugal, “Knowledge needs to progress at the same time, and so we need more scientific doctors as well as medical doctors.”
http://www.theportugalnews.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=1160-9
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