Latest news and stories about patient safety in Portugal for expats and residents.
A 7-year-old patient was referred to Narciso Ferreira Hospital to remove a benign facial neoplasm but was mistakenly subjected to laparoscopic surgery for an inguinal hernia instead.
Infarmed states that the laboratory will recall the nine batches of Sertraline toLife 50 mg and 100 mg products, after an impurity “above the acceptable limit” was detected.
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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.
Joana Bordalo e Sá stressed that tired doctors and professionals “are always a risk to themselves and also a risk to patients”.
Two doctors were sentenced to pay a fine of €6,000 each for the death of a newborn at the Northern Maternal and Child Centre.
The Association also requested technical information on the process of implementing the new algorithms, including testing phases, monitoring and validation.
First part of 'Doa a Quem Doer' from 2 January 2026.
The care home was operating illegally and had already been served with a closure order in October 2024, which it ignored. The Social Security authority carried out an “urgent closure” and removed the residents from the premises.
A Portuguese psychiatrist sentenced in Sweden to six months' imprisonment for child pornography and banned from practising has been seeing patients in Portugal without restrictions.
