The Beatriz Angelo Hospital in Loures, Lisbon district, is experiencing difficulties this month in creating an external emergency scale for general surgery, the hospital reported this Friday, confirming a situation that worries the municipalities it serves.
“We inform you that there are currently restrictions at the Beatrice Angelo Hospital in creating an external emergency schedule for general surgery for November, which is a consequence of justifying additional work beyond 150 hours in this specialty,” an official source of this hospital said.
In response to Lusa, a source from the Beatrice Angelo hospital urged users to “contact SNS24 at 808 24 24 24 before going to the hospital.”
Expressing “great concern” about the situation, Lures City Council President Ricardo Lean (PS) told Lures that “there is no data that allows us to say that the times ahead could be better.”
“For months, already for several months, the Beatriz Angelo Hospital has been operating well below what is really needed,” said the mayor of Loures, noting that the mayors of the municipalities served by the hospital have been waiting for months for a meeting with the Minister of Health Manuel Pizarro (PS) .
The Beatriz Angelo Hospital is served by four municipalities: Loures, Odivelas, Mafra and Sobral de Monte Agrazo.
In a written response to Lusa, the Odivelas City Council, chaired by Hugo Martins (PS), stated that the municipality is monitoring the situation “with natural concern and in constant contact with the competent authorities, which reinforces the need for an urgent solution that will allow the Beatriz Angelo Hospital to resume its important activities as soon as possible quicker”.
The mayor of Sobral de Monte Agraço, José Alberto Quintino (CDU), also shared concerns about the “serious restrictions” at the Beatriz Angelo hospital, which is the reference hospital for this municipality in the district of Lisbon, which belongs to the Central District. region and Western sub-region.
“We don’t even have official information, we only have information from users that the service is very bad. Right now, for example, last week I had complaints from users about 11-hour waits in the emergency room,” he said. the mayor of Sobral de Monte Agrazo, demanding improved medical care at the hospital, since “the population is currently experiencing enormous difficulties due to the quality of care.”
Lusa also asked questions to the municipality of Mafra, led by Hélder Sousa Silva (PSD), which is still awaiting a response.
The mayors of these municipalities met with the board of directors of the Beatriz Angelo hospital, but “the answers are always the same: the number is limited, doctors leave, etc., which, unfortunately, is happening throughout the country,” the president noted. Loures Chambers in Luse Statements.
Ricardo Lean said he was “very concerned” about the negotiation process between the Ministry of Health, the Independent Union of Doctors (SIM) and the National Federation of Doctors (FNAM), hoping that “it will end quickly, quickly, to restore some normality.” within the National Health Service.”
Stating that the municipality of Loures is making “investments like never before” in the construction of four new health centers, the mayor said that “health centers must be strengthened with resources and must move to type B to be able to respond properly.” people with extended work hours and doctors” to reduce demand for Beatrice Angelo Hospital services.
“Medical centers and family medicine departments should be the first door, and if they function properly, with longer opening hours and a more comprehensive response, this will allow people to less often resort to emergency care at the Beatriz Angelo Hospital,” said Ricardo Leao .
Without a properly functioning primary health care network, “it is difficult for the Beatrice Angelo Hospital to function at all in its current conditions,” he explained.
“We hope that the group of medical centers and family health departments here in the municipality of Lures will move into type B, which in fact provides greater freedom of action and autonomy not only in management, but also in the financial relations that the doctors and specialists of these family doctors there are now offices, because it is connected with the work of each family medical center,” the mayor explained, adding that applications have already been submitted, but depend on the reaction of the Ministry of Health.
More than 30 hospitals from the north to the south of the country are facing difficulties and temporary closure of services due to the difficulties of the administration in filling the lists of doctors.
We are talking about the refusal of more than 2,500 doctors to work overtime more than 150 hours a year, which they are required to do.
The crisis has already forced the chief executive of the National Health Service (SNS), Fernando Araujo, to admit that November could be dramatic if the government and medical unions cannot reach an understanding.
Negotiations between unions and the government have been ongoing for 18 months, with a new meeting scheduled for Saturday.
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