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New fixed unit, located on Avenida da República, will allow for the screening of approximately 100 women per day.
The US president states that he chose not to destroy oil infrastructure on the island, but does not rule out the option. Additionally, a demonstration by service users is scheduled in Vila Franca de Xira.
A new association has just been established in Cascais to support people with aphasia, an acquired communication disorder. Public services are scarce and private, commercial provision is expensive.
He is one of 564 foreign health professionals working at ULS São José. He chose Lisbon for its safety and quality of life. He says that here he feels he can grow and gain experience.
The heliport has become the 'strategic point' for emergency air transport in the Lisbon region and is the most used among the country's hospital units.
PRESS SUMMARY || The announced works have still not progressed and there is no set date for the start of the works.
An October 2024 report had already argued that the service should be 'relocated as a matter of urgency', but building work has not yet progressed.
The presence of “legionella”, which can cause severe respiratory infection, prompted the suspension of public services, and the reception and processing of suspects detained by the PSP at Marquês de Pombal.
The bacterium was detected at the end of December in a women’s changing room. The National Directorate says operational capacity will be maintained.
In 2025, the maternity ward at Hospital Santa Maria registered its highest annual number of births in over a decade.
All eight reinforcement ambulances from several fire brigades were dispatched by INEM's Urgent Patient Guidance Centre to the city of Lisbon and surrounding areas.
Patients classified as non-urgent must wait 11 hours.
According to the SNS portal, the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region had the highest number of patients waiting, with a total of 224.
Among the units with the longest waiting times, Hospital Professor Doutor Fernando da Fonseca - Amadora-Sintra continues to be the one with the most patients waiting.
This morning the average waiting time in the country’s hospital emergency departments is around three hours and 16 minutes for patients classified as urgent. At Amadora‑Sintra Hospital the average waiting time is 11 hours, and at Santa Maria it is about six hours.
This week at least three people died while waiting for help in Seixal, in Sesimbra (Quinta do Conde) and in Tavira.
Lisbon has the largest number of patients waiting, with waiting times reaching nine hours at Amadora-Sintra.
According to the National Health Service (SNS) portal, the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region accounts for the largest number of patients waiting, with a total of 270.
Average waiting times are around four hours and 54 minutes for urgent cases and 49 minutes for very urgent cases. Amadora-Sintra Hospital and Beatriz Ângelo in Loures record the longest waits, nine and eight hours respectively.
The Director of Nursing at the Amadora‑Sintra Hospital Centre has resigned, saying insufficient backing from health supervisors has rendered it impossible to run the service effectively.
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.
On Sunday, the Gynaecology emergency department at Hospital Vila Franca de Xira is expected to close, along with the emergency departments at Hospital São Bernardo and Hospital Nossa Senhora do Rosário.
Ten years ago, Garcia de Orta Hospital in Almada opened the first hospital-at-home unit. Today there are already 50 Local Health Units offering this service — a way of delivering healthcare to 400 patients receiving inpatient care outside the hospital.
Four gynaecology and obstetrics emergency departments have been closed. In Amadora‑Sintra only the gynaecology emergency department is shut; meanwhile the general emergency at Hospital Fernando Fonseca (Amadora‑Sintra) reported a three‑hour wait for patients classed as very urgent as of 20:00, according to the SNS Portal. Santa Maria recorded a two‑and‑a‑half‑hour wait for very urgent cases, and Hospital de Loures topped the waiting‑time list with around three‑hour waits for urgent patients.
