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Sindepor says it is necessary to recruit nurses who are on the recruitment reserve list.
Among the priorities, the union leader highlighted the uneven implementation of the progression regulations, saying that “there are hospitals that are applying them and others that have not yet applied them”.
The Almada hospital lacks a team to cover nine shifts until the end of the month.
The situation at Amadora-Sintra is unsustainable due to a shortage of doctors, a complaint made in an exclusive interview with RTP by the hospital's director of nursing, who resigned on Thursday.
Maria Luísa Ximenez submitted her resignation at the start of the week, saying the 'safe practice of the profession' was not guaranteed and she did not have the support of the health authority. She reports rotas without the necessary specialists, a management post left vacant for two months, and the 'abandonment' by the Ministry of Health in letters sent to hospital managers, the hospital's nurses and the Order of Nurses.
