Santa Maria Hospital this Friday decided to activate its contingency plan and urged only emergency patients to go to emergency services.
“The decision to activate the contingency plan has been communicated to other hospitals,” said João Gouveia, director of the Central Emergency Service of Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon, adding that “we will have to start scheduling outside of extraordinary hours.” “
“I came to ask that only those patients who need immediate and urgent care come to the emergency department, namely the emergency department of the Santa Maria Hospital,” said João Gouveia.
The doctor explained that patients from hospitals in other regions who were not referred by INEM institutions or CODUs (Centres for Emergency Patient Care) “will not be treated in this hospital” because Santa Maria does not have the capacity to guarantee such monitoring.
According to João Gouveia, health workers “come to do their job” but need to “regulate the flow.”
“We’re having difficulty with patient flow right now” due to the closure of emergency services at other hospitals, which means a “continuous influx,” he said, explaining that they had more than 700 patients in the emergency department on Monday. , the last fair.
“The hospital cannot respond to this problem alone,” Joao Gouveia stressed at a press conference at the Santa Maria Hospital, which is part of the Central Hospital University of Lisbon Norte together with the Pulido Valente Hospital, regarding the emergency.
Author: morning Post
Source: CM Jornal
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