Government: Creates the Public Health Prize Francisco George.


On the same day, last Friday, where Francisco George fired from the post of Director-General of Health, the Government published in the Official Gazette (DR), a created “Public Health Prize Francisco George”. The President will awarding George with the Order of Merit Grand Cross.

Francisco George, who last Friday makes his final speech as Director-General of Health, position he held for 12 year old, It will be awarded the Order of Merit Grand Cross, He announced the President of the Republic. That same day, It was published in DR, the creation of “Public Health Prize Francisco George” and approved the respective regulation.

With the establishment of the prize, the Ministry of Health, “aims to distinguish this personality that stood out in the public health area in Portugal”, and its creation aims “in order to distinguish the work and research studies, original and innovative, in public health topics of major interest and impact for the defense of public health”, Francisco area where George stood out.

The Prize is to be awarded pecuniary, amounting to 5 thousand euros, and whenever the jury considers it justified may also award honorable mentions, up to a maximum of two. The public announcement of the official opening of applications for the Prize will take place on 7 April, World Health Day, and the submission of applications will take place in the period from 1 from June to 31 August.

It is recalled that Francisco George is linked to the Alentejo, namely the Beja district, and his first relationship, while professional, It was as Cuban health officer and later in Beja, where he lived for many years. In Beja, as well as higher health technician was also a professor in the School of Nursing.

The decoration with the Order of Merit Grand Cross, which will be imposed on him, by Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President da República, It will be the second, once it has received from the hands of Jorge Sampaio, in 2006, the decoration of Grand Officer of the Order of Infante D. Henrique.

The next job that Francisco George will occupy will be the president of the Portuguese Red Cross.

Teixeira Correia

(journalist)

Photo credit: Público (online edition)


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