The waiting time for emergency patients exceeded at 8:50 am this Friday and 2:00 pm at the Beatriz Angelo Hospital in Loures, with more than 36 people on the waiting list.
On Thursday at 22:00, the average waiting time for emergency patients exceeded 13 hours at the Beatriz Angelo hospital in Loures and more than six hours at the Fernando Fonseca (Amadora Sintra) and San Francisco Xavier hospitals.
The data refers to the average wait time for care over the past two hours, and the number of patients represented corresponds to the number of people currently waiting for care after screening.
According to data from the National Health Service Portal (SNS) seen this Friday by the Lusa agency, after 8:30 am at the Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon, the average waiting time was 13 hours and four minutes with 28 patients. waiting for help (yellow bracelet)
Still in Lisbon and the Vale o Tejo region, the average waiting time for emergency patients exceeded nine hours at the Fernando Fonseca Hospital (Amadora Sintra), where 15 people were waiting for treatment.
In São José the wait was less than two hours, with two people waiting to be served, and in São Francisco Xavier, also in Lisbon, the time was similar, with the SNS website listing one hour and 47 minutes (one person waiting), and in García de Orta, Almada, the wait was one hour and 25 minutes (18 people).
In Grand Porto, at the São João hospital, the wait was two hours 12 minutes, with eight people waiting for help (yellow wristband), and for less urgent patients (green wristband) two hours 29 minutes (seven people waiting). .
In Santo Antonio, the wait was less than half an hour (24 minutes) and there were two people waiting for help, but for less urgent cases the website lists a wait time of 13 hours and 33 minutes (three people waiting).
Also in the northern region, at the Pedro Espano Hospital, in Matosinhos, the wait was 49 minutes (three people waiting), and in Santos Silva, in Vila Nova de Gaia, the wait for those with a yellow bracelet was two hours 49 minutes. in a multi-purpose emergency room (four people).
In Coimbra, the waiting time for emergency patients was less than an hour, and two people were waiting for help.
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).
The Ministry of Health announced on Thursday that 42 health centers are open after 8 pm on weekdays and 189 will be open on weekends to provide care for non-emergency acute illnesses.
In its statement, the guardianship requested that during times of increased demand for medical care as a result of an increase in respiratory infections and cold weather, which “can decompensate chronic diseases,” users call the SNS24 telephone line (808) in advance. 24 24 24) for “advice and referral to the most appropriate medical facility.”
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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