There will be no emergency surgery at the Mirandela hospital until the end of this month, the Doctors in Struggle movement told Lusa on Thursday.
“According to the information we have, the Mirandela hospital will not have a surgeon to support the emergency department for a month,” said Susana Costa, a spokeswoman for the movement.
The reason is the shortage of doctors for shifts, which is due to the justification of medical workers to work overtime beyond the 150 overtime required by law.
It is worth recalling that there were no emergency surgeons in the hospital department in Mirandelena from 8 am on October 6 until the same time on October 8.
The schedule for that day (October 8) was full, the same source confirmed to Lusa at the time. Which hasn’t happened since then.
The Bragança Hospital has an emergency surgery service.
Susana Costa also told Lusa on October 6 that “more than 85%” of the general surgery specialists at the Bragança hospital have indicated that they are no longer willing to work overtime.”
A hospital document that Lusa had access to that same day explained that this circumstance had created a “consequent need to concentrate resources in the medical-surgical emergency department” of the Bragança hospital, the largest in the district. , which justifies the closure, occurred between the 6th and 8th of this month.
“The General Surgery Department will continue to operate at the Bragança Hospital,” explained Susana Costa this Thursday.
Therefore, users admitted to the emergency department of Mirandela Hospital and requiring surgery will be sent to the district capital, located approximately 60 kilometers away.
Regarding Mirandela Hospital, Susana Costa said that internal doctors “only work with one doctor” per day, and also reported that they had to “resort to the same doctor for 48 hours at a time”, usually external health care providers . .
Susana Costa said additional services are still being provided to Northeast Local Health Unit, which is experiencing a physician shortage.
“We know that the number of intensive care unit beds has dropped by about 33%. [no hospital de Bragança]. Every 24 hours, there will be one less doctor working in intensive care teams,” said Susana Costa, adding that “the transport of intensive care patients or more critical patients is carried out by anesthesiologists from the Bragança Hospital.”
According to Susana Costa, this means that there is only one anesthetist left to meet all the hospital’s needs, which is “clearly not enough.”
According to Susana Costa, the shortage of doctors will worsen next month in most hospitals “because most projects [de escusa a mais horas extra] which are currently making their way to boards of directors will only have an impact on the November scale.”
Lusa contacted the local Northeast Health Unit, which runs the Mirandela and Bragança hospitals, but has not yet received a response.
For Susana Costa, at the moment “there is no solution or as close as they would like” regarding negotiations with the government.
“The guardianship has a metric offer with many premises in which the values they offer and which are obvious to public opinion can be achieved through additional work and goals. In most cases they are not feasible,” he said. Susana Costa, repeating that this is not what the class wants.
“We are committed to promoting comprehensive recognition of medical careers,” he concluded.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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