Analysis: Portugal ponders domestic cost of good health

LISBON (Reuters) To get an thought of a outrageous financial strains on Europes health care sector, put yourself in a boots of Professor Joao Alvaro Correia da Cunha.
As conduct of North Lisbon sanatorium centre, one of Portugals largest, da Cunha has already slashed salaries by 20 percent and strew 150 staff as partial of cuts demanded by general lenders in lapse for bailing out a government to a balance of 78 billion euros. He is underneath orders to keep cutting.
Yet da Cunha, a alloy for 43 years, is not prepared to concede on his pursuit to reanimate a sick. In Feb he spent 1 million euros to provide a lady with a formidable blood illness and will shortly allot a new drug for 25 people with a deadly degenerative haughtiness commotion autochthonous in northern Portugal. The cost will be maybe 200,000 euros a year per patient.
Portugals taxpayer-funded national health service (NHS) provides concept access, some-more or reduction giveaway...