PJ police conduct searches at Braga Hospital
PJ police are this morning conducting searches at Braga Hospital. CNN Portugal says “economic crimes in violation of rules of public contracting are at issue”. A statement issued by the
Constraints in Hospital de São Francisco Xavier as floodwaters stream into basement floors
The flooding in low-lying areas of Greater Lisbon today have also caused constraints in Hospital São Francisco Xavier. The basement floors (levels 0 and -1) have been flooded, while the
A&E units at 17 hospitals adopt “fast track” transfer of non-urgent patients to health centres
Patients will be able to ‘refuse’ transfer 17 hospitals across the country with A&E departments (urgências) have set in in motion the redirection of non-urgent patients, triaged with blue or
Setúbal pediatric A&E shuts down for one week
The solution to increasing ‘chaos’ at Setúbal’s pediatric A&E unit has been to shut the whole place down. Lusa reports that the unit has been officially closed from 9am this
Garcia de Orta Hospital ‘sends non-critical patients to other hospitals’
The weekend’s chaos in Lisbon A&E departments showed no sign of abating over Sunday night, with Garcia de Orta Hospital taking the decision to ‘divert non-critical patients to other hospitals’.
President of Azores hospital quits following mass walkout by doctors
Cristina Fraga, president of the administrative board of Ponta Delgada’s Hospital do Divino Espírito Santo, has tendered her resignation today following the bloc resignation on Wednesday of 21 of the
Almada A&E bosses submit bloc resignations, citing staff shortfall
… as negotiations between doctors syndicates and government fail to scintillate Medical team at Almada State hospital’s General Emergency Service (SUG) of the have submitted letters of resignation from their
Chronic problem of A&E will be solved by ‘complementary timetables’ at health centres
It is another day of ‘big announcements’ by heads of government. Following on from the assurance by economy minister António Costa Silva that “Portugal will have cheaper energy in the
Lusíadas Saúde to open new private hospital in Vilamoura
The hospital will be located within the iconic Lusotur building and represents a €10 million investment Private health group Lusíadas Saúde has announced that it will open a new hospital
Lisbon A&E unit falls back into chaos; waiting times up to 14 hours
Arrivals at the A&E unit of Lisbon’s Santa Maria Hospital today face average waiting times of 14 HOURS, according to data on the SNS national health service portal. Said the