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Mayors in Barreiro are opposing the closure of the obstetrics and gynaecology emergency unit, citing that over 16,000 births have occurred there between 2014 and 2024. They find the decision to close the unit incomprehensible, especially in light of ongoing healthcare challenges, such as ambulances being held for hours at other emergency departments due to high patient volumes.
The ULSAS Fertility Centre, which has recorded pregnancy rates per embryo transfer of over 40%, is the only public centre south of the Tagus authorised to provide medically assisted reproduction techniques.
The clinic owner reports that the water reached over two metres in height.
Initially, disruptions were expected across eight night-time shifts.
The January roster has nine shifts without a team to staff the VMER (medical emergency and resuscitation vehicle) at Garcia de Orta Hospital in Almada. The president of INEM tells Expresso that “it's only not critical because it's during the night.” The first night without emergency cover is this coming Tuesday into Wednesday.
The victim suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest and the officers performed basic life support manoeuvres. The man was taken to Barreiro Hospital.
GNR officers who were at another table performed basic life support. All ambulances were parked at Barreiro hospital without stretchers available.
The vice‑president of the Portuguese Firefighters' League, Eduardo Correia, says three more ambulances are expected this weekend on the south bank of the Tagus. The first ambulance has already been operating since 8am this Friday from Trafaria, in the municipality of Almada.
The vice-president of the Portuguese Firefighters' League, Eduardo Correia, says three more ambulances are expected this weekend on the south bank of the Tagus. The first ambulance will operate from Trafaria.
Xavier Barreto identifies a lack of resources on the south bank of the Tagus to meet current demand and proposes an immediate solution: 'free up social admissions' — otherwise further deaths are a possibility.
Leandro Luís, hospital administrator of ULS São José, adds that this difficulty on the Setúbal peninsula is 'sometimes due to lack of capacity, other times to the management of the entry flows into A&E itself.'
The 73-year-old woman died on Wednesday evening after waiting 40 minutes for emergency assistance.
An elderly woman waited 40 minutes for help.
Firefighters travelled a distance of 35 kilometres.
Commander Paulo Santos, a commentator for CNN Portugal, analyses the case of the man who died in Seixal while waiting for INEM and the issue of stretchers being retained in hospitals. “It's a deep-rooted problem,” he summarises.
The Public Prosecutor's Office had already ordered that the body be removed and sent for a medico-legal autopsy.
The Portuguese Firefighters' League meets with INEM this Thursday. President António Nunes says various issues will be raised at the meeting and analyses the case of the man who died in Seixal while waiting for assistance from INEM. 'The retention of stretchers in hospitals is a chronic problem,' he says, noting that a number of government promises have long been overdue to be implemented on the ground.
This concerns the death of a 78-year-old man in Seixal on Tuesday, after he waited almost three hours for assistance from INEM (Portugal's National Institute for Medical Emergency).
The Union of Pre-Hospital Emergency Technicians (STEPH) today regretted that “the country was not able to provide a better response” to the case of a Seixal patient who died after waiting three hours for assistance.
IGAS opened an inquiry into the case this Wednesday.
A patient in Seixal died after waiting three hours for assistance.
A man died in Seixal after waiting three hours for emergency services that should have arrived within one hour.
The INEM workers' committee today refused to be the 'scapegoat for failures of the National Health Service', saying the unavailability of resources for emergency assistance — as in the Seixal case — is due to ambulance stretchers being retained in hospital emergency departments.
The president of the Seixal Fire Brigade explains that the corps reported it had no ambulances available.
Parliamentary parties reacted to the death of a man in Seixal and asked the Health Minister for explanations. Chega also wants to question the SNS executive director and the president of INEM.
The presidential candidate said that 'someone must take responsibility and that responsibility lies with whoever heads the Government'.
At 15:00, the Inspectorate-General for Health Activities opened an inquiry into the incident in Seixal in which a man reportedly waited three hours for medical assistance at a health facility.
The first robotic surgeries at Hospital Garcia de Orta began in February.
A man died on Tuesday in Seixal after nearly three hours waiting for assistance from INEM. Rui Lázaro, president of the Union of Pre-Hospital Emergency Technicians, responds to statements by the president of INEM and analyses what may have gone wrong.
