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The Amadora-Sintra Hospital has pledged to add 13 nurses to its emergency department following staff protests, though the Nurses' Association argues this increase fails to address the critical staffing shortages and long patient wait times.
The first privately managed Family Health Unit has launched in Torres Vedras, marking a delayed milestone in the government's Health Emergency Plan to improve patient care efficiency.
Emergency departments are experiencing significant wait times for urgent patients, with extreme heat identified as a contributing factor affecting vulnerable elderly individuals.
A former INEM employee, João Figueira, passed away at Beatriz Ângelo Hospital in Loures after suffering a heart attack and experiencing delays in his scheduled surgery due to the facility's lack of specialized equipment.
Spanish healthcare group Ribera is actively pursuing new public-private partnership opportunities in Portugal, with leadership currently awaiting feasibility studies to guide their expansion strategy.
The external paediatric surgery emergency department at Dona Estefânia Hospital will remain closed until Sunday.
The Centralised Gynaecology and Obstetrics Emergency Department of Loures-Odivelas/Tejo Estuary recorded 201 births during its inaugural month of operation, meeting expected performance targets.
Mayors are seeking meetings with political parties to address the negative impact of obstetric emergency service closures on local populations, particularly those in remote areas.
Botond Roska and José-Alain Sahel are pioneers in vision recovery after blindness. Following their first successful case in 2021, they have now won this year's António Champalimaud Vision Award.
“We are tinkering with the brain… What is the ethical limit?” Albino Oliveira-Maia, a neuropsychiatrist at the Champalimaud Foundation, is already using psychedelics to treat deep depression and other mental illnesses.
For over two decades, I believed that having pain was normal. Today I know that menstrual knowledge can change lives, and that is what the Menstruation Summit aims to do in Lisbon at the end of May.
The third edition of the award once again distinguishes innovative projects with a positive impact on the health sector. Expresso is the associated media partner.
Another (rare) ‘hospital mix-up’ – when the wrong body is released to a family for burial – happened this week in Lisbon, but it differs from the norm by involving The post Celebrities affected by hospital body blunder appeared first on Portugal Resident.
After all the unpleasantness of CHEGA’s presidential billboards comes a heartwarming story of gypsy success: Israel Paródia, 24, is Portugal’s first gypsy doctor. He started work at Lisbon’s Santa Maria The post Portugal’s first gypsy doctor starts at Lisbon’s Santa Maria Hospital appeared first on Portugal Resident.
