Health minister visits Bial drug company in wake of French trial disaster
Billed as a way of showing government confidence that “one lamentable episode” does not tarnish the reputation of a strategic company within Portugal’s health cluster – in spite the fact
Portugal’s healthcare under fire
Austerity cuts in the health service are killing people. It’s the claim, coming from all quarters, that has literally taken the nation’s press by storm since Christmas. With presidential candidates,
Portugal’s new health minister to “re-evaluate” closure of 11 casualty departments
Portugal’s new health minister Adalberto Campos Fernandes has announced he will be re-evaluating the decision to close 11 casualty departments up and down the country. He is not promising anything,
Algarve ploughs €220,000 into renovating health centres
Health centres in Lagos, Santo Estêvão (Tavira) and Fuzeta (Olhão) are to receive €220,000-worth of renovations, regional health authority ARS Algarve has announced. Most of the work will be going
Algarve’s “understaffed” casualty departments packed with “dehydrated seniors”
The Algarve’s chronically “understaffed” casualty departments are reaching breaking point, filled to the brim with an ever-increasing flow of “dehydrated” old folk. Hospital boss Pedro Nunes warns medical staff are
Health units open at Algarve beaches
Health issues related to beach-going such as sunburns, weeverfish stings and other minor injuries can now be treated at one of the Algarve’s 32 beach health units. The units opened
Casualty departments in crisis as Algarve doctors threaten mass-walkout
Seventeen doctors running Algarve casualty units have threatened to resign on Monday (June 15) over rules they claim put nurses in the position to make decisions “only a qualified doctor
Health crackdown on alcohol and tobacco
Health Minister Paulo Macedo is promising big changes to laws regulating alcohol and tobacco. The idea is to cut down on the number of illnesses suffered nationwide. Some of the
Socialists “deeply concerned” about Algarve’s health sector
Portugal’s Socialist Party (PS) has sounded the alarm yet again about the state of the Algarve’s health sector – expressing “deep concerns” about the region’s “lack of human resources” and
National health service in state of rupture
Portugal’s struggling national health service – cut to the bone by austerity – is now on life support. Unless you are the prime minister, news according to the nation’s press