More than 60 thousand births in SNS until November

More than 60,000 babies were born in NHS settings this year to the end of November, up 2.3% on the same period last year.

According to data released Tuesday by the SNS Executive Directorate (DE-SNS), 60,613 babies were born, up from 59,171 at the end of November last year.

Even between June and November, a more critical time due to holidays as well as restrictions due to doctors’ inability to provide emergency care beyond 150 hours per year, SNS performed more births this year than last year: 34,274 this year year. versus 33,903 in 2022.

In Lisbon and the Tagus Valley region (LVT) alone, excluding the Centro Hospitalar do Oeste (closed for part of the year for work on the maternity ward), “22,629 children were born between January and November 2023, compared to 22,018 in 2022 (i.e. that is, an increase of about 3%),” the DE-SNS message notes.

From July to November, INEM referred 111 pregnant women to private (agreed) hospitals in the LVT region, that is, less than one pregnant woman per day. “With around 69 births a day in this region, this means that 99% of cases were responded to by the NHS,” the statement also highlighted.

DE-SNS emphasizes that despite all the problems, the SNS network worked, there was not a single pregnant woman without a response and that all the most complex births were carried out in the SNS, and, “excluding any specific case due to insufficient use of the system response always had the character of intimacy.”

In the statement, the executive leadership of the SNS speaks of the shortage of gynecologists/obstetricians at the international level, the “comprehensive planning” that needs to be carried out, and asks pregnant women to always contact the SNS24 or INEM line in case of urgency before contacting a medical facility. emergency situation.