The process of installation of the Order of Physiotherapists is composed of various highly complex phases. The epidemiological situation in Portugal caused by the SARS -CoV -2 virus and the COVID -19 disease, as well as the time required for the creation of material conditions for the effective installation and all the processes that constitute it, has caused additional difficulties to the normal development of the installation process.

The Installation Commission of the Order of Physioterapists, in the person of physiotherapist Isabel Souza Guerra and physiotherapist António Lopes, was received by his Excellency, the President of the Republic, Professor Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.

The Installation Commission of the Order of Physiotherapists has assumed the commitment of dematerialization in all its administrative processes.

In accordance with article 62, no. 1 of the Statute of the Order of Physiotherapists, annexed to Law no.
122/2019, of 30 September "The attribution of the professional title, its use and exercise of the profession of physiotherapist, in any sector of activity, individually or in a professional society, depend on registration with the Order as a full member (...)".

The Installation Commission of the Order of Physiotherapists recently met with the Order of Dentists.

The President of the Installation Commission of the Portuguese Order of Physiotherapists, Isabel de Souza Guerra, was present last weekend at the National Meeting of Physiotherapy Students (ENEFt).

Since the beginning of the vaccination campaign, the Commission Instaladora da Ordem dos Fisioterapeutas (CI-OF) has been raising awareness of the right of physiotherapists to be vaccinated in the 1st phase of the vaccination plan, as health professionals who are at high risk of contracting the disease and spreading it, regardless of the context/sector in which they work.

All human beings have the right to education. So it is written in the 26th article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, pointing to education as an integral part of the "full development of the human personality and the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms".

The parliament voted on 3rd July the proposals for the creation of the Physiotherapists Order already approved in the parliamentary speciality.