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Infarmed is currently evaluating the potential widespread hospital use of a new cancer drug after previously denying a special authorisation request for a 35-year-old patient.
The recent dispatch signed by Health and Health Management Secretaries has sparked controversy as it paves the way for establishing a Cardiac Surgery Unit at the Local Health Unit (ULS) of Santo António in Porto. This decision has raised questions regarding healthcare policy and resource allocation in the region.
The Secretary of State for Health has signed an order that supports the establishment of a Surgery Unit at Hospital de Santo António, where she has previously worked and maintains connections. This decision highlights the ongoing relationship between healthcare policy and the officials who influence it.
In the past three years, ten patients have tragically died while awaiting heart surgery at Santo António Hospital in Porto, raising serious concerns about the efficiency and safety of the public healthcare system.
The Porto region is set to invest €820,000 in the refurbishment of two health centres. The Vale Formoso Health Unit will receive €526,000 for a four-month renovation, while the Foz Health Centre will be upgraded with an investment of €297,000, expected to take 100 days to complete.
Former minister under Luís Montenegro and current mayor of Porto criticises the UGT. Additionally, Adalberto Campos Fernandes has been appointed coordinator of the 'Health Pact' created by the President of the Republic.
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The government wants the Santo António Local Health Unit (ULS) to become a reference centre. The hospital's only cardiac surgeon is unable to perform operations.
The government wants the Santo António Local Health Unit (ULS) to become a reference centre. The hospital's only cardiac surgeon is unable to perform operations.
The Secretary of State for Health, Ana Povo, stated today that the Santo António Local Health Unit (ULSSA) in Porto meets the conditions to become an affiliated reference centre for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI).
Regarding the possibility of creating a cardiac surgery centre in the Northern region, the Secretary of State for Health states that the Santo António Health Unit meets the necessary conditions.
Nearly 330 patients died between 2021 and 2025 while on waiting lists for cardiac surgery, according to Secretary of State for Health Ana Povo. The government plans to issue an order to review referral networks to address the issue, particularly in the North, where there is debate over the creation of new reference centres to reduce waiting times and improve access to procedures like TAVI valve implants.
The government official believes that the Santo António Local Health Unit (ULSSA) in Porto meets the necessary conditions.
Ana Povo gives a job to the son of the president of the Santo António hospital in Porto, to which she is linked as a doctor.
In the largest NHS hospitals, only Santo António pays the coordinator of the additional surgery team. With a “clear conscience”, Eurico Castro Alves says he would have earned much more as a surgeon.
The President of Cape Verde announced today in Porto that the paradigm of relations between Portugal and Cape Verde in the health sector will change completely.
The president of Cape Verde has said today in Porto that he intends to open new and more effective avenues in cooperation with Portugal to substantially improve healthcare delivery in The post President of Cape Verde in Porto seeking to “substantially improve” his country’s “healthcare delivery” appeared first on Portugal Resident.
Bárbara Gomes is one of the leading experts in this field in Portugal. She is currently leading a study to establish the first international classification of places of death.
Surgeons at the IPO in Porto warn that they are being called for “highly specialised clinical situations” during nights, weekends, and public holidays. The union demands an urgent response from the ministry.
The Socialist Party's bill creating the 'Back Home' programme is considered positive but insufficient. The executive director of the National Health Service says it does not make sense, even though these admissions account for 10% of the total.
The Council of Ministers approved physician Nélson Pereira to lead the Matosinhos Local Health Unit (ULS). The terms for the boards of Santo António and São João hospitals ended in 2025, and the term for the Porto IPO ended in 2024.
MP Alfredo Maia questions the Minister of Health regarding NHS spending at the centre, which has been charging €45 per patient and treating non-urgent cases since August 2024.
Funding is secured through earmarked revenue from the tobacco tax, as defined by a government order. The pilot projects will last for 12 months.
Socialist MPs for Porto ask the Ministry of Health for the exact amount in debt and warn: the delays compromise trust in the NHS and its contracted partners.
Services provided to the NHS by the hospital managed by the Porto Misericórdia have remained unpaid for over five months. Socialist MPs want to know the reason for the multi-million euro debt.
“Porto IPO does not pay state allowance to those who harvest and transplant organs” is the headline of this Tuesday's DN, March 30. The complaint comes from the Northern Doctors' Union and has already been sent to the Health Inspectorate, the Executive Directorate, and the ministry for investigation. At issue are funds missing since 2001, when the law granting such an allowance was approved. The union will demand at least 12 million euros for the last five years. Porto IPO guarantees it has complied with the law. In the photo highlight, the departure of 'Artemis II' towards the Moon. Download the full version of DN at the link below. Other highlights: Culture: Claudia Cardinale, an actress of the people and the aristocracy; Sport: Liga Meo Surf welcomes the best Portuguese surfers in Figueira; Housing: More than a fifth of loans with public guarantees are at high risk; Justice: After all, when does the Public Prosecutor's Office consider there to be a crime of racial discrimination?; Politics: Francisco César: “It is not the people who have to change, it is the PS that has to adapt”; War: Vital to Iran's economy, Kharg Island is in Trump's sights. See the DN front page in detail.
The Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martins, admitted this Monday that she is preparing revisions to legislation and the creation of special ordinances to accelerate waiting times for surgeries, particularly cardiac ones. In Maia, in the Porto district, where she visited works under the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), Ana Paula Martins acknowledged that...
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The Government has not paid for services contracted with the Prelada Hospital in Porto for five months. The debt exceeds twelve million euros and the institution is threatening to halt assistance.
