On Wednesday, the Minister of Health dismissed reports that public maternity hospitals were scheduled to close and confirmed that the current rotation model for these services is showing positive results and is being reassessed at the end of the first quarter.
“There will not be and is not expected to be the closure of any public maternity hospital,” Manuel Pizarro told reporters, responding to information put forward by RTP on Tuesday that there was a new Commission proposal to monitor the response to gynecological emergencies, which could lead to the closure of eight obstetric gynecological emergency departments serving only pregnant women with a period of at least 22 weeks and referred.
Speaking on the sidelines of the launch of the report The state of health in prisons in the WHO European Region [Organização Mundial de Saúde]at Infarmed’s headquarters in Lisbon, the official confirmed that “the system works well, with safety for professionals, but above all with comfort, safety and quality for pregnant women.”