The hearing requested from the Minister of Health took place this Thursday, March 16, with the participation of the President of the Portuguese Bar Association and the 1st Vice-President, who handed over the Bar Association's proposal concerning the implementation of physiotherapy units in the organization models of the National Health Service, with a view to achieving the physiotherapist's professional autonomy.

The President of the Portuguese Institute of Physiotherapists, António Lopes, met this Wednesday, 15th March, with the President of the Administration Council of the Assessment and Accreditation Agency for Higher Education (A3ES), João Pinto Guerreiro.

Invited by the President of the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco (IPCB), the President of the Order of Physioterapists, António Lopes, was present in the ceremony of inauguration of the new Director of the Superior School of Health Dr. Lopes Dias (ESALD), also a physiotherapist, Rute Crisóstomo, that took place on 8th March, in the auditorium of the referred school.