Amadora Sintra Hospital available for additional measures to winter emergency plan

The administration of the Fernando Fonseca Hospital (Amadora Sintra) on Tuesday expressed its readiness to implement additional measures to the winter emergency plan after the resignation of the heads and deputies of the emergency medical service teams.

In a memo sent to Lusa, Amadora-Sintra’s board of directors adds that after submitting their resignation, the hospital’s emergency department heads were “immediately contacted” and met with those responsible, “showing them whether it is possible to find and take additional measures to the current current winter contingency plan.”

While acknowledging that “the increased demand for the emergency service over the past few weeks represents an additional challenge for the teams”, the board of directors of the Fernando Fonseca Hospital notes, however, that the extension of hours of additional assistance in the care of primary health care services in the municipalities of Amadora and Sintra, “this is expected to help reduce the influx to the Emergency Service.”

In addition, the physical space dedicated to the emergency service has been increased, “which has resulted in improved safety and comfort for users and professionals, as well as the rental of 83 beds abroad,” he adds.

Team leaders and deputy leaders of the Emergency Medical Service at the Fernando Fonseca Hospital (Amadora Sintra) resigned on Tuesday because they believe the quality of care and the safety of users are at stake.

In a letter addressed to the clinical director of the hospital, Prof. Dutor Fernando Fonseca, with the knowledge of the chairman of the board of directors, the 44 signatories stated that the hospital was “again experiencing moments of great difficulty in fulfilling a noble mission.” providing the best medical care to the population resorting to it.

“After with great effort and a sense of duty we overcame the pandemic, which required all institutions of the National Health Service (SNS) to provide their best specialists, we look to the future with great anxiety and apprehension,” the message says. letter published by the Independent Union of Physicians (SIM).