Lagos’ São Gonçalo hospital becomes ‘exclusively’ available to SNS public health service
Lagos’ formerly private São Gonçalo hospital has from today become integrated within the Algarve chain of State-run hospitals (CHUA, standing for Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Algarve). The move opens up
Death of six-year-old child: Infarmed confirms notification of suspicion of adverse reaction to vaccine
The death of a six-year-old boy in Lisbon on Sunday following “notification of a suspected adverse reaction” to the Covid vaccine is under investigation. Medicines authority Infarmed has said: “We
Garcia de Orta A&E closure “is not outbreak of Omicron”, stresses PM
As Portugal officially enters a new State of Calamity today – with all restrictions outlined during the prime minister’s press conference last Thursday click here – Lisbon hospital Garcia de
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.
‘Bed blockers’: another escalating concern for Portugal’s hospitals
Bed-blockers, or people who no longer need to be in hospital but have nowhere else to go, are returning to haunt the SNS health service. Explains SIC, before the pandemic,
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
Algarve hospitals desperately trying to hire nurses from Spain
The chronic lack of nurses within CHUA (the university hospital centre of the Algarve) has led to a new drive to (try and) attract nurses from neighbouring Spain. Nursing director
Clinical director resigns from Setúbal hospital due “asphyxia and parasitization of SNS health system”
The parlous state of A&E departments in a number of hospitals within the SNS State health system has been highlighted once again by the dramatic resignation of clinical director Nuno