Portugal's medical industry has three parts: National Health Service (SNS); social health insurance program; and self personal health insurance.
1, national health care services: health centersPortugal people's health care system corresponds to the health center. This is set up by the government department, each family is assigned a family doctor, and then on time by this family doctor for each family member to do physical examination, to ensure the health of the body. Generally, the government department pays 81.5% of the medical expenses and the individual pays 18.5%. However, this is a simple health service that is available in every neighborhood.
2. Self-personal health insurance: private hospitalsSelf-personal health insurance of course refers to private hospitals. Compared with public hospitals, the cost is high, the treatment time is fast, and private hospitals have more advanced equipment and quality services. If you have health insurance (about 30 euros a month), you need to pay the hospital registration fee of 40 euros and its 18.5% of the cost of treatment, the remaining 81.5% by the state to pay.
3, social health insurance scheme: public hospitalsSocial health insurance scheme is the public hospitals. Portugal's public hospitals are strong, with excellent equipment and strong technical force. Including hospital outpatient treatment is completely free of charge, hospitalization and treatment is completely free of charge and other health services, in addition to the medicines needed for medical treatment belongs to the "National Medicines Control Directory", so that the patient can be free to try.
The patient only has to pay 2 euros for the hospital registration fee and 18.5% of the cost of treatment, while the other 81.5% is paid by the State. However, Portugal's aging population has led to long waiting lists at public hospitals, where supply and demand are in sharp contrast.
Portugal government departments will invest 10.1% of GDP every year for medical treatment, as long as you get a reasonable and legal permanent residence or a reasonable and legal work permit for foreign Chinese nationals, with a health insurance card can enjoy the local universal free medical service program. And, Portugal has implemented a system of separation of medicine, patients only need to rely on the physician issued by the drug list, you can go to the pharmacy to buy drugs.
Europe has always been more welfare concerns, many European countries have a sound social security system, Portugal is a well-known large country in Western Europe, in addition to numerous holidays, but also 22 working days a year of paid annual leave, parent-child interaction leave of nearly 120 ~ 150 days, the Portuguese government in the level of social security and social assistance every year will be funded to invest one or two hundred million, so that the masses of Portugal to enjoy high The Portuguese government invests 20 billion dollars a year in social security and social assistance, so that the Portuguese people can enjoy a high salary and welfare and comfortable life.
Portugal health care is divided into public and private, public hospitals operate on a very large scale, machinery and equipment is exquisite, but the number of people to get medical treatment, private hospitals can also be in a relatively small amount of time so that everyone has access to a full range of medical services, the most noteworthy is that Portugal has a community health service in every neighborhood, for the community to give the number of record the number of people to give a simple health service, and now as long as the application for the The new program to handle the Portuguese home buyer immigration, to obtain a real identity can be based on the same treatment as the locals to enjoy.