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IGAS Confirms Ex-SNS Director Gandra D'Almeida Breached Accumulation Rules at INEM and DE-SNS — 200k Euros at 50€/Hour, 70-Plus Weekly Hours, Payments Through His Own Company — No Sanction Because Military Status Sits Outside the LTFP

IGAS's 8 May report concludes ex-SNS executive director António Gandra D'Almeida breached public-function accumulation rules at INEM and at DE-SNS — 200k+ euros earned, 70+ weekly hours, payments to own company. No sanction: military status keeps him outside the LTFP.

News

Farminveste's 2025 Net Profit Quintuples to €58.7 Million on the Alloga Logifarma Divestment — €908.6 Million Revenue, €51.6 Million EBITDA as the ANF-Controlled Holding Reweights Around Glintt, CUF and HMR International

Farminveste's 2025 net profit hit €58.7M, nearly quintupling 2024's €11.2M, on the May-2025 sale of 51% of Alliance Healthcare (Alloga Logifarma). Volume of business €908.6M (+7.6%); EBITDA €51.6M (+10%); continuing ops €26M; discontinued ops €73.8M from the divestment.

Healthcare

Sociedade Portuguesa de Diabetologia and the Ordem dos Médicos Demand Infarmed Revoke the 13 April Glucose-Sensor Circular — Generic Prescription Treats Two Medical Devices With Different Age Approvals and Different Apps as Interchangeable

SPD president Estevão Pape and Ordem dos Médicos bastonário Carlos Cortes call Infarmed's 13 April circular a 'clinical setback'. The shift from brand-specific to generic prescription treats two CGM sensors as interchangeable — but one is approved age 2+, the other age 18+, and the apps don't talk.

Legal

Portugal's Direito ao Esquecimento for Mortgage and Consumer Insurance — Cancer Survivors Beyond 10 Years, Childhood Cases at 5, and the 2-Year Mitigated-Disease Threshold for HIV, Diabetes and Hepatitis C Now Live Under ASF Supervision

Portugal's Direito ao Esquecimento (right to be forgotten) bars insurers from collecting or pricing on health histories that meet specific recovery thresholds — 10 years post-treatment for adults, 5 for under-21 cases, 2 years of continuous treatment for mitigated chronic conditions.

Healthcare

Hospital Dona Estefânia Suspends Its External Pediatric Surgery Emergency Until Sunday 20:00 — Anaesthesiology Staff Shortage Strips Lisbon's Main Children's Hospital of Operating-Room Cover Through the May Day Long Weekend

Hospital Dona Estefânia has suspended its external paediatric-surgery emergency until Sunday 3 May at 20:00, citing an anaesthesiology staff shortage. The general paediatric ER stays open. SNS 24 (808 24 24 24) handles the redirect to other paediatric-surgery centres.

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