The Portuguese State owes 38 million euros to polytechnic higher education institutions, according to news reports. This debt arises in a context where JN reports that, since the unfreezing of career progressions for teachers and researchers, there has been no budgetary reinforcement to address the associated costs, despite a promise to that effect having been made by the Minister of Education.
In the health domain, JN reports that approximately three thousand new nurses have been trained, but public hospitals continue to be unable to proceed with their hiring. This situation highlights a contradiction between the training of health professionals and the capacity of the public system to absorb them.
Both cases illustrate the budgetary difficulties of the Portuguese State in meeting commitments made, whether in the polytechnic higher education sector or in the health sector, where the existence of available professionals does not automatically translate into their integration into public services.
