The Health Service Names Migrants With and Without Papers, in the Same Sentence
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Trinidad and Tobago on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
98 exceptions recorded across 37 countries · none match Trinidad and Tobago to Portugal · Access to healthcare
Portugal's Basic Health Law states the right to health protection as belonging to all persons, and the National Health Service is bound to be universal - care to everybody without discrimination. Who its beneficiaries are is a separate base and it is unusually explicit: all Portuguese citizens, and equally people with permanent residence or in temporary stay or residence here who are nationals of Union member states or equivalents, third-country nationals or stateless persons, applicants for international protection, and migrants with or without their situation legalised. The word for foreigner never appears in the law; the classes are named one by one instead.
At a glance
- Who the service is for
- Portuguese citizens, and residents and people in temporary stay alike
- Without legal status
- Named as beneficiaries in the same sentence
Base 21(2), "migrantes com ou sem a respetiva situação legalizada".
- Applicants for international protection
- Named separately in the same list
- On what terms
- Universal, without discrimination, in dignity and equality
Base 20(2)(a).
- What the base defers
- The terms, to the applicable legal regime
Base 21(2) ends "nos termos do regime jurídico aplicável", which this record does not reach.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«O direito à proteção da saúde é o direito de todas as pessoas gozarem do melhor estado de saúde físico, mental e social, pressupondo a criação e o desenvolvimento de condições eco- nómicas, sociais, culturais e ambientais que garantam níveis suficientes e saudáveis de vida, de trabalho e de lazer.»The right, stated as belonging to all persons rather than to citizens or residents.
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Portugal's official gazette. Its web application cannot be read by any tool here, but the issues themselves are served as PDFs from a file host at an address built from series, year, month, issue number and page range - and those PDFs carry a real text layer.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: What the file host serves is the issue as published, not a consolidated text: an Act fetched this way is the Act as enacted and says nothing about later amendments. The address has to be known in advance, because the index that would give it is inside the application that returns no text.
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«O SNS pauta a sua atuação pelos seguintes princípios: a) Universal, garantindo a prestação de cuidados de saúde a todas as pessoas sem discrimi- nações, em condições de dignidade e de igualdade;»The universality principle. The hyphen inside "discrimi- nações" is the gazette's line break and is reproduced as printed.
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Portugal's official gazette. Its web application cannot be read by any tool here, but the issues themselves are served as PDFs from a file host at an address built from series, year, month, issue number and page range - and those PDFs carry a real text layer.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: What the file host serves is the issue as published, not a consolidated text: an Act fetched this way is the Act as enacted and says nothing about later amendments. The address has to be known in advance, because the index that would give it is inside the application that returns no text.
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«São beneficiários do SNS todos os cidadãos portugueses. 2 — São igualmente beneficiários do SNS os cidadãos, com residência permanente ou em situa- ção de estada ou residência temporárias em Portugal, que sejam nacionais de Estados-Membros da União Europeia ou equiparados, nacionais de países terceiros ou apátridas, requerentes de proteção internacional e migrantes com ou sem a respetiva situação legalizada, nos termos do regime jurídico aplicável.»The list of beneficiaries. Undocumented migrants are not an exception to it - they are an item in it.
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Portugal's official gazette. Its web application cannot be read by any tool here, but the issues themselves are served as PDFs from a file host at an address built from series, year, month, issue number and page range - and those PDFs carry a real text layer.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: What the file host serves is the issue as published, not a consolidated text: an Act fetched this way is the Act as enacted and says nothing about later amendments. The address has to be known in advance, because the index that would give it is inside the application that returns no text.
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Practical notes
What this record states is the basic law. What a person is charged, and what proof a health centre asks for, is in the regime the base defers to and is not read here.
This is the Act as published in the gazette, read from the gazette's own PDF. Later amendments to it, if any, are not in this text.
- issuesLei n.º 95/2019, Lei de Bases da Saúde, Diário da República 1.ª série n.º 169
Diário da República, Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda
About this source
Portugal's official gazette. Its web application cannot be read by any tool here, but the issues themselves are served as PDFs from a file host at an address built from series, year, month, issue number and page range - and those PDFs carry a real text layer.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: What the file host serves is the issue as published, not a consolidated text: an Act fetched this way is the Act as enacted and says nothing about later amendments. The address has to be known in advance, because the index that would give it is inside the application that returns no text.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source