The National Institute of Medical Emergencies (INEM) justified on Wednesday the decision to send a pregnant woman from Torres Vedras to a maternity hospital in Coimbra – 170 km away – by saying that three hospitals in the Lisbon metropolitan area (Amadora-Sintra, Loures and Barreiro) are overcrowded.
This was reported by an official source CM that the call from the pregnant woman occurred at 6:17 a.m. on July 13. “The hospitals of Amadora-Sintra, Loures and Barreiro could have accepted the user, but they were already accepting pregnant women from all over the Lisbon region, the southern bank of the Tagus and the Alentejo coast,” he explained.
Therefore, INEM’s Emergency Patient Care Centre referred the patient to Coimbra, “since hospitals further north did not offer an alternative.”
“The Bissaia Barreto maternity hospital in Coimbra refused to accept the patient due to lack of space. At 8:57, the Daniel de Matos maternity hospital reported that it had vacancies,” INEM concluded.
Author: Miguel Curado
Source: CM Jornal
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