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Given the foetus's size and degree of development, health professionals believe the pregnancy was at least around 30 weeks.

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 Public Prosecutor's Office has today opened an investigation into the case of a foetus found dead at Hospital CUF Tejo in Lisbon, after a woman gave birth there under circumstances that are still being established.

A woman is alleged to have given birth in a hospital bathroom to a stillborn foetus of around 30 weeks and then attempted to dispose of the body in the toilet.

Given the size and stage of development of the foetus, healthcare professionals consider the pregnancy would have been at least around 30 weeks' gestation.

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.

The investigation uncovered a scheme that used wellness and fitness facilities to supply prohibited substances to bodybuilders, culminating in four arrests in Greater Lisbon.

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.

A man's body was mixed up at São José Hospital. The family only discovered the error moments before the wake. The deceased was 69 years old and died on Wednesday at the hospital of cancer, a disease diagnosed in December.

Hospital de São José, in Lisbon, mistakenly handed the wrong body to a family. It was the widow who, when she opened the coffin to say goodbye to her husband, noticed it was not the same person. According to family members, the body wore the correct clothes, but the identification bracelet bore a different name.

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 woman reportedly gave birth to a stillborn foetus in a hospital bathroom, and the body was later found in the toilet by healthcare staff.

According to reports, a woman is said to have tried to get rid of a foetus after giving birth in a bathroom at CUF Tejo hospital.

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.

Casa Pia, from the Portuguese first division, is accused by the Public Prosecutor's Office of having received more than one million euros from the Russian club FC Akhmat and of concealing the origin of the money to circumvent European Union sanctions. The decree-law that changes the rules for locum doctors in the Service ...

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.

Manuela Lupi e Costa has already been contacted by São José Hospital, which confirmed the mix-up to the widow. Mário Oliveira Nunes died on Wednesday, after being diagnosed with cancer in December.

Summary: Ventura and Seguro are reported as tied; the dermatology department at Egas Moniz hospital currently has no confirmed date for its relocation.

PRESS SUMMARY || The announced works have still not progressed and there is no set date for the start of the works.

CNN Portugal spent time inside CODU, INEM’s medical call centre in Lisbon and found a centre under sustained pressure where high call volumes demand rapid, accurate triage and careful deployment of ambulances and other rescue resources. The report examines how operators prioritise calls, the protocols guiding decision-making, and the operational strain of matching limited resources to urgent needs.

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.

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