He died on the last Sunday of the year, December 31, 2023, at age 71. The death of Dr. Manuel Murta leaves us poorer, not only for the doctor we lost but also for the profoundly humanist person we lived with. He was one of the pioneers in the implementation of telemedicine in the Alentejo region in the 1990s after working in close collaboration with primary health care throughout the Alentejo and the Algarve regions and accompanying hundreds of patients throughout his career.
