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The Health Administration Institute, IP-RAM, has been authorized to regularize payments to three mental health institutions effective January 1, 2025.
Through Regional Government Council Resolution No. 561/2026, the Madeira Government has authorized the payment of expenses arising from cooperation agreements in the mental health sector, with retroactive effect to January 1, 2025. The measure aims to regularize financial compensation for services provided by social sector institutions that function as an extension of the Regional Health Service.
The total value of the authorization amounts to €20,047,170.47, distributed as follows:
The Government justifies the retroactivity as a mechanism to regularize a de facto situation, essential to ensure the continuity of mental health care provision, given the public sector's inability to respond to demand alone.
The Regional Secretariat for Health and Civil Protection reallocates budgetary charges under the Recovery and Resilience Plan for mental health units, with a net increase of 120,900 euros.
The capacity of the elderly support establishment was formally increased after modernization works financed by the Recovery and Resilience Plan.
The Regional Health Secretariat authorized an increase of nearly 93,000 euros in the budget for the requalification of integrated long-term care units, raising the total amount to over 4.4 million euros.