Latest news and stories about patient care in daily life in Lisboa, Portugal for expats and residents.
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.
In Lisbon, 73% of users carried out at least one preventative action.
Have you heard of haemorrhoids? What is the difference between haemorrhoids and haemorrhoidal disease? And if it affects so many people in Portugal, why does it remain such a difficult topic to discuss in a consultation? In this episode of Consulta Aberta, we simplify the topic with doctor Pedro Botelho.
These constraints are felt in personal, family, and professional life. Thinking about adding associative, voluntary, and often unrecognised work to this is bold and challenging. Opinion by Ana de Carvalho Gonçalves
Not all headaches are the same. A neurologist for over 30 years, Isabel Pavão Martins deals with the most severe and debilitating ones: those that change the lives of those who experience them.
The counters are expected to be available in the municipality's four parishes: Alcabideche, São Domingos de Rana, Cascais e Estoril, and Carcavelos e Parede.
Mother and baby are in good health and were transported to Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon.
Considered the most neglected global disease by The Lancet journal, sickle cell disease primarily affects people of African descent and is on the rise in Portugal. It is not rare, has no cure, but is treatable.
Statements from the key figures at the event organised by Servier to discuss the importance of treatment adherence, which featured Expresso as a media partner.
This Thursday, March 26, marks Purple Day, World Epilepsy Awareness Day. The date invites reflection on a condition still heavily marked by misinformation and stigma.
The birth took place at the doors of Santa Maria Hospital, around 6:00 am.
The birth took place at the doors of Santa Maria Hospital, around 6:00 am.
The new permanent unit, located on Avenida da República, will allow for the screening of approximately 100 women per day, strengthening the response capacity of the screening programme in the region.
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.
André Graça, director of the Neonatology Service at ULSSM, says that 'the new Neonatal Intensive Care Unit increases the responsiveness and capacity to welcome the babies' families.'
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.
The case was exposed on the programme Investigação CM last week. Ana Rita's mother made an emotional appeal, which was heard.
São José Hospital delivered the wrong body for the funeral of Mário Oliveira Nunes, Manuel Luís Goucha's brother‑in‑law. The family realised the error moments before the wake. The hospital says it will open an inquiry into the incident.
A 33-year-old woman gave birth to a stillborn baby in a bathroom at CUF Tejo in Lisbon during the early hours of this morning (January 16), after reportedly not informing The post Woman gives birth to stillborn baby in Lisbon hospital bathroom appeared first on Portugal Resident.
The heliport recorded 208 landings since March 2025, becoming a “strategic point” for emergency air transport in the Lisbon region. Transport includes patients, doctors and organs.
A 33-year-old Portuguese woman living in Sintra reportedly did not inform clinical services that she was pregnant, and her partner said he was unaware of the pregnancy.
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.
Almost 2,700 babies were born at Santa Maria over the past year. The institution calls it a 'historic moment'.
In 2025, the maternity ward at Hospital Santa Maria registered its highest annual number of births in over a decade.
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.
