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New community mental health team strengthens response

📍 Santarém🩺 Health🏖️ Daily Life#patient-care+2 more

The new team ensures a weekly presence at the Médio Tejo Local Health Unit, while also maintaining fortnightly appointments at the Alcanena Health Centre and home-based intervention.

Observador16 Mar
New community mental health team strengthens response

"Our rivers can no longer carry all the water to the Tagus". Dam releases increase flood risk

📍 Santarém🌱 Environment🚇 Infrastructure#severe-weather+3 more

As periods of heavy rain forecast for the coming days approach, concern is growing over the discharges being made from dams. In Torres Novas, CNN Portugal reporter António Pereira Gonçalves reports that water has completely submerged a road in the parish of Riachos.

CNN Portugal3 Feb
"Our rivers can no longer carry all the water to the Tagus". Dam releases increase flood risk

Alviela River plagued by daily environmental attacks

📍 Santarém🌱 Environment🏖️ Daily Life#river-pollution+3 more

Residents of Pernes woke once again to a nauseating smell in the air and the Alviela riverbed coated in a brown foam.

Correio da Manhã3 Feb
Alviela River plagued by daily environmental attacks

Fall of 'hundreds of trees' keeps A1 partially closed; maximum alert until midnight

📍 Santarém🚇 Infrastructure🧭 Travel#a1-closure+3 more

The A1, the country's main motorway, remains closed to traffic from the Torres Novas junction in the Lisbon-to-Porto direction, with no forecast for when it will reopen, a Brisa source told ECO/Local Online. 'Hundreds of trees fell, so it is likely to take some time' to reopen, the same source indicated. In the south-to-north direction, at kilometre ...

ECO28 Jan
Fall of 'hundreds of trees' keeps A1 partially closed; maximum alert until midnight

River Almonda bursts its banks and threatens roads in Ribatejo: "Reguengo de Alviela will become the island we're used to"

📍 Santarém🚇 Infrastructure🌱 Environment#flooding+3 more

CNN Portugal reporter António Pereira Gonçalves describes rapid flooding in Riachos, in the municipality of Torres Novas, where the water level appears 'much more intense' than the previous day. It rained all night in the Serra de Aire and Candeeiros, leaving fields and minor roads submerged. A rise in the Tagus over the coming days could affect national roads and isolate Reguengo de Alviela.

CNN Portugal27 Jan
River Almonda bursts its banks and threatens roads in Ribatejo: "Reguengo de Alviela will become the island we're used to"

Torres Novas Day Hospital expanded

📍 Santarém🩺 Health🚇 Infrastructure#medical-services+3 more

The work joined three distinct areas, creating a single modern and functional space. The service is essential for people with cancer or other chronic conditions that require regular monitoring.

Observador20 Jan
Torres Novas Day Hospital expanded

Trainee police officers in illegal boxing fights at a PSP training school

📍 Santarém🏛️ Government🎓 Education#public-safety+3 more

A confrontation between two students on the trainee officers' course was filmed at the PSP Practical School in Torres Novas. Eight disciplinary proceedings have been opened.

Correio da Manhã28 Dec
Trainee police officers in illegal boxing fights at a PSP training school