Eight emergency gynecology and obstetrics services will be open and six closed in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region, the Executive Directorate of the National Health Service (DE-SNS) announced on Friday.
According to a clarification from DE-SNS sent to the Lusa agency, on Saturday and Sunday in Lisbon and Vale do Tejo, “eight emergency gynecology and obstetrics services will be open and six will be closed to the public.”
“The normal operation of the network between different hospitals will be maintained so that no user is left without access to medical care,” DE-SNS assures.
According to the National Social Security emergency schedules available online, these emergencies will be closed on Saturday at the hospitals of São Bernardo (Setúbal), Garcia de Horta (Almada), Fernando da Fonseca (Amadora), Beatriz Angelo (Loures), São Francisco Xavier (Lisbon) and Santa Maria (Lisbon).
Also according to DE-SNS, the planning of emergency gynecological and obstetric care in Lisbon and Vale do Tejo for next weekend “is in line with what was planned and what has happened in recent weeks, taking into account the characteristics of the summer months, a period when many health teams are on holiday.”
“Across the country, of the 43 emergency gynaecology and obstetrics services, 35 will be open on weekends and eight will be closed,” he adds.
One of the emergency gynecological/obstetric services closed from this Friday until the 19th is the Leiria Hospital, a situation justified by the “lack of human resources necessary to guarantee the provision of services during the summer holidays,” according to a statement of clarification from DE-SNS.
The closure was coordinated with the local health department in Coimbra to ensure that users in the Leiria area continued to receive a response, he adds.
“As for planned births, the solution involves referral, with the consent of the pregnant woman, to the Centro Materno e Infantil do Norte. [Porto] which will receive users from Leiria,” the document says.
According to DE-SNS, the transport will be handled by the local health department of the Leiria region, “10 births are scheduled for the next few days,” and according to information collected by this institution, “the pregnant women and their families are satisfied with the alternative offered to them.”
DE-SNS stresses “the need to always call the SOS line for pregnant women.” [808 24 24 24] before contacting the emergency gynecology service,” adding that “in just three months, this gesture has redirected some 16,000 pregnant women to the most appropriate medical care.”
This Friday, the PSD deputies elected by Leiria, in a question addressed to the Minister of Health submitted to Parliament, warned that the emergency obstetrics department at the Leiria Hospital would be closed for 18 days, until the 19th.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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