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'If we don't have internal medicine trainers we can't keep the ship afloat. It's alarming,' said João Carlos Ribeiro of the National Medical Internship Council on Wednesday in Parliament.
Closures of orthopaedic emergency departments in the Lisbon region are becoming increasingly frequent due to a shortage of doctors, warns the Portuguese Medical Association. Shortages are also evident in paediatrics.
Each doctor has, on average, a list of 1,550 patients
The president of the Order of Nurses, Luís Filipe Barreira, says that the conditions in the Amadora‑Sintra Emergency Department are not the result of individual nurses' actions and warns of a shortage of doctors.
