The doctors’ order created a commission to evaluate about 50 public and private maternity hospitals in the country in view of the Ministry of Health’s “scenario of absolute failure” in this matter, the president told Luse on Friday.
“This will be an exhaustive study, both because of its size, there are 50 birth sites, and the depth of the study, but the Medical Association understood this because the Department of Health was not doing its job to the best standard. in this matter, it must make a technical-scientific contribution to an extremely sensitive topic that has suffered serious difficulties for too long,” said Carlos Cortes.
For the president, the government program “proved to be an absolute failure” in terms of response in the field of obstetrics.
“We have absolutely dramatic situations of no response, for example in Greater Lisbon, at the San Francisco Xavier Hospital,” which admits pregnant women from the Santa Maria Hospital, whose maternity ward is closed due to construction work.
The President said that on Wednesday he was in the hospital of Leiria, “which is also experiencing a dramatic situation” in which from Thursday to Sunday there is no reaction in this area.
It is with this scenario in mind that the Medical Association decided to create a “commission, a working group to evaluate the public and private maternity hospitals of the country”, consisting of several schools, namely gynecology-obstetrics, anesthesiology, pediatrics, neonatology and will have the support of the University of Porto, since also A statistical study will be conducted.
According to Carlos Cortés, the physical, technical and staffing condition of maternity hospitals will be assessed to check what the problems are and indicate solutions, especially from the point of view of specialists, knowing how many of them the country needs and in which places. and technician facilities needed to monitor pregnant women.
Upon completion of the work, the OM will send a document with its recommendations to the Ministry of Health for their implementation, “if it so desires.”
Carlos Cortes hopes to be able to present the document in March or April, when the new government’s Ministry of Health “will be ready to begin its functions.”
In response to Lusa’s question about the difficulties faced by pregnant women due to the closure of maternity hospitals due to a lack of specialists to cover shifts, Carlos Cortes gave the example of how doctors at the wards in Setúbal told him this week that pregnant women should go to Ultrasound. scanning privately because there is no response from the NHS in the area.
Carlos Cortes also said that restrictions on social networks create an “insecurity effect” for pregnant women, forcing many of them to choose from the very beginning to be accompanied in the private sector so that, he stressed, “they do not have to be in this situation of uncertainty and insecurity of the public sector, where there is no constant and constant control.”
“If public maternity hospitals are closed several days a week, they do not respond; mothers must turn to the private sector,” he complained.
“So, we know about the difficulties, let’s now find out in more detail what these difficulties are, where they are and how the Ministry of Health can solve them,” concluded the president of doctors.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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