The average waiting time for emergency patients in hospitals in the Lisbon region varied at 7:30 am this Thursday, from more than 18 hours at the Beatriz Angelo Hospital in Loures to one hour at García de Orta in Almada.
Santa Maria Hospital emergency department director general João Gouveia said in statements Thursday that the flu is forecast to “peak in the second week of January.” The main reason patients go to the hospital is influenza. It also shows that in terms of average wait time, “the last patient was 18 hours.”
At 10pm on Wednesday, the average waiting time for emergency patients in hospitals in the Lisbon region ranged from more than eight hours at the Fernando Fonseca Hospital (Amadora Sintra) to 47 minutes at the García de Orta Hospital in Almada.
According to the National Health Service Portal consulted by Lusa, 38 patients with a yellow bracelet (urgent) were present this Thursday at around 7:30 am in the general emergency service of the Beatrice Angelo Hospital with an average waiting time. time 18 hours 21 minutes, while the recommended time is 60 minutes.
At Fernando Fonseca Hospital (Amadora Sintra), the average waiting time was nine hours and 55 minutes, with 44 people wearing yellow bracelets in the central emergency department at the time.
At the hospitals of San Francisco Xavier, São José (both in Lisbon) and García de Orta (Almada), waiting times were three hours and 1 minute (2 people), one hour and 18 minutes (two people) and one hour and 29 minutes . minutes (12) respectively.
In the Porto region, according to information seen by Lusa, at the Santo Antonio hospital the waiting time for emergency patients was eight hours and 20 minutes, but at about 7:30 am there was only one person waiting to be seen.
At S. João Hospital, the average waiting time for emergency patients was one hour and 38 minutes, and at Pedro Hispano, Matosinhos, the average waiting time for emergency patients was three hours and 32 minutes (8 people were waiting).
At the Eduardo Santos Silva Hospital in Vila Nova de Gaia, 16 people were waiting in the multi-purpose emergency department wearing yellow bracelets, with a waiting time of two hours and 22 minutes.
Manchester triage, which assesses a user’s clinical risk and assigns a priority level, has five levels: urgent (red wristband), very urgent (orange), urgent (yellow), less urgent (green) and non-urgent. ( blue).
In the case of a yellow bracelet, the first service should not take more than 60 minutes, and in the case of a green bracelet, it is recommended not to exceed 120 minutes (two hours).
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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