On Tuesday, the PSD demanded an urgent parliamentary hearing of Diogo Aires de Campos, former director of the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine of the Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte (CHLN), and the board of directors of the same center.
In a statement filed on Tuesday with the Assembly of the Republic and addressed to the chairman of the Health Commission, the Social Democrats recall that on Monday the CHLN announced the dismissal of the then director of the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine, Diogo Aires de Campos.
“Given the importance of the function to be performed as the Coordinator of the Commission for Monitoring Responses in the Gynecology/Obstetrics and Maternity Ward, the SDS Parliamentary Group considers it urgent to fully clarify the circumstances of this release, based on concerns about the ability to promptly conduct Operation Born Safe”, – deputies are justified.
According to a CHLN report released on Monday, the OB/GYN and Reproductive Medicine leadership took positions that “repeatedly questioned the work design and collaboration process with San Francisco Xavier Hospital while working on the new maternity facility at HSM [Hospital Santa Maria]”.
On an interim basis, Alexandre Valentim Lawrence, Director of Gynecological Services at CHLN, will provide leadership for this unit “while the normal process is going on that will lead to the final assignment to these functions,” the note adds.
CHLN guidance emphasizes that the management of the OB/GYN/RH should “ensure the management of the new maternity hospital in close collaboration with the clinical management, the CHLN Board of Directors and the SNS executive management” (DE-SNS), a process that “implies a spirit of loyal cooperation with to enhance the quality of the SNS response to pregnant women and their children.”
The OB/GYN response plan outlined by DE-SNS stipulates that while the maternity unit at Santa Maria Hospital is closed for work – in August and September – services will be concentrated at S. Francisco Hospital. Xavier (Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Oeste), which closed in rotation on weekends and is open again seven days a week from 1 August.
Diogo Aires de Campos has publicly defended that the pattern of rotating maternity closures laid out by the NHS executive board “has no justification in a European country” and should be temporary.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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