The Regional Health Service (SRS) of the Azores will resort to private entities for the execution of examinations in the area of the mammography, in agreed regime, in the island of S. Miguel.

The decision of the Executive of Carlos César, made real in an official communication published by the regional secretary for Social Affairs, intends to put an end to the insufficient answer of the public health services of S. Miguel in this specialty, namely in what concerns the execution of recommendable prevention examinations since a certain age.

The official communication of Domingos Cunha establishes a term of 10 days counted from today, so that the entities interested in the service present the respective candidatures to the Saudaçor, SA.

In the terms of the diploma, the users of the SRS will have a right of choosing the agreed entity for the service, being that the execution of the examinations must be done in the maximum term of five weekdays.

In cases of urgency properly proved the examinations will have priority, having to, if possible, to be carried out immediately; it establishes the official communication.

To improve the services rendered to the users, the Government of Carlos César decided recently to agree with private entities the execution of complementary examinations of diagnosis in the areas of the echographies, CAT scans and examinations of magnetic resonance, predicting that the new regime allows the execution, this year, of 15.500 examinations.