President Marcelo tries to broker truce over Santa Maria’s resigning doctors
President Marcelo has stepped into the drama affecting Accident and Emergency at Lisbon’s Santa Maria hospital (click here). The head of State says a crisis in the health sector (on
Nine heads of service at Santa Maria Hospital follow through on resignation ‘threat’
Nine heads of service at Lisbon’s Santa Maria Hospital have created stark precedent today by physically leaving their posts exactly 12 days since warning they were ready to do so.
SNS health service attracts “less than half of new doctors”
Following the announcement of a three-day doctors’ strike in November (click here), headlines today are focusing on the SNS public health service’s struggles to attract new doctors. Data cited by
Doctor treats patients in street to make sure everyone gets seen
One doctor who has taken Portugal’s chronic shortage of health personnel into her own hands is Raquel Bandilla who is suddenly ‘famous’ for taking consultations in the street. The medical
Hospitals in rupture: doctors accuse government of “deliberately destroying public health services”
A second Portuguese hospital in 24-hours has announced “a situation of rupture”. With resignations ‘en masse’ (in Setúbal, see ‘briefly’ section), warnings in the south (click here) and in general
Order of Dentists sounds alert over pandemic’s toll on oral hygiene
Portugal’s Order of Dentists has sounded the alert over the toll the pandemic is having on people’s attention to oral hygiene. Initially people were terrified of the thought of contagion
Down to just one doctor: Aljezur Council demands “immediate solutions”
Aljezur Council has sent an open letter to the Ministry of Health denouncing the shortage of healthcare professionals and family doctors in the borough, which is now down to “just
Doctors and pharmacists tell Portuguese government: “it’s time to recover the right to live”
Doctors and pharmacists have put their names to an Open Letter initiative today declaring it is time to “recover the right to live”. They contend that government’s ‘extraordinary measures of
Portuguese doctors speak out against plan to vaccinate nation’s children against Covid-19
As countries around the world start rolling out Covid vaccines for children from the ages of 12-15, a group of doctors in Portugal has retaliated. The Aliança Pela Saúde de
Portugal tests ‘robotic spinal surgery’
Portugal is testing a form of robotic spinal surgery. The technique is in ‘the experimental phase’, explains SIC. A simulation has taken place in Coimbra today. Says the TV news