Hospitals in Loures and Amador Sintra with over 11-hour waiting times for emergency care

According to the National Portal of Health Services, the average waiting time for emergency patients exceeded at 8:30 am this Saturday, 2:00 pm at the Beatriz Angelo Hospital in Loures and 11 hours at the Amadora Sintra Hospital.

According to the Lusa agency, at 8:30 am, the average waiting time for emergency patients (with a yellow bracelet) at the general emergency service at Beatriz Angelo Hospital was 14:37 hours, while the recommended time is 60 minutes.

In the department’s emergency department, 42 users wearing yellow bracelets were waiting to be seen.

For very urgent patients, the waiting time at the Beatrice Angelo Hospital is more than 20 hours.

Patients listed as on hold in the SNS portal include those awaiting primary care and those awaiting post-care test results.

At the Fernando Fonseca Hospital (Amadora Sintra), the average waiting time for urgent bracelets was 11 hours 25 minutes (at 8:30 am), with 24 people waiting.

At the Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon, the waiting period for emergency patients was 5 hours 10 minutes, with nine people waiting.

At San Francisco Xavier, the wait time was 13 minutes (one patient was waiting), which was in line with the wait time estimated by the Manchester system, and San Jose Hospital’s multipurpose emergency department had two emergency patients with a wait time of two hours and 43 minutes.

At the García de Orta Hospital in Almada, the waiting time for emergency patients was one hour and 48 minutes, leaving 12 people waiting.

At the D. Estefania pediatric hospital in Lisbon, the wait time was 37 minutes, with three people wearing yellow bracelets in the emergency department.

In the Porto region, at the São João Hospital, the waiting time was 3 hours 20 minutes (10 people).

At Santo Antonio Hospital, the wait time was 31 minutes (excluding users), which is in line with the estimated wait time for emergency patients.

At the Pedro Espano Hospital in Matosinhos, two people wore a yellow bracelet and the waiting time was 1 hour 10 minutes, while at the Eduardo Santos Silva Hospital, Vila Nova de Gaia, the waiting time was 1 hour 51 minutes. and four people were waiting with urgent bracelets.

Manchester triage, which assesses a user’s clinical risk and assigns a priority level, has five levels: urgent (red wristband), very urgent (orange), urgent (yellow), less urgent (green) and non-urgent. ( blue).

In the case of a yellow bracelet, the first service should not take more than 60 minutes, and in the case of a green bracelet, it is recommended not to exceed 120 minutes (two hours).