Struggling Algarve hospitals get “completely new management team”
The perennial problems eating away at the Algarve’s State-run hospitals have seen health minister Marta Temido come up with a drastic solution. Out are going all the members of the
Burns victim “at risk of losing hands” after being sent home from hospital in agony
A man who suffered 60% burns to his body after trying to unblock a washing machine with caustic soda is described as at risk of losing his hands after being
Health minister wants Algarve’s Central Hospital to move forward in 2021
The project to build the Algarve’s long-promised Central Hospital – which has been stuck in political limbo for over a decade and is viewed as essential to attract more doctors
Algarve’s hospitals and health centres welcome 136 training doctors
The Algarve’s public health services will be receiving some much-needed help this year following the announcement that 136 medical interns – 90 GPs and 46 specialists – have chosen the
Psychiatric internments associated with cannabis use have increased 30-fold in 15 years
For all those hailing Portugal’s decriminalisation of drugs in 2001 “a success”, a new study showing that psychiatric hospital internments associated with cannabis use have increased 30-fold in the same
Patients and staff at two Lisbon hospitals “at elevated risk” due to exposure to degraded asbestos
Patients and staff at two Lisbon hospitals are at elevated risk due to exposure to degraded asbestos. This is the warning from ‘specialist’ Rui Silva following analysis of ‘various photographs
Inquiry opens into construction of long-awaited Porto hospital pediatric wing
No sooner has construction began on the long-awaited pediatric wing at Porto’s São João Hospital than DIAP investigators have opened an inquiry, protected by Secrecy of Justice. This far, there
Doctors at Évora Hospital resign en-masse after audit claims they have been overpaid
Doctors heading various departments at Évora Hospital have presented their resignation ‘en masse’ today after an audit ruled they have been overpaid and must stump up thousands of euros. 23
Doctor under fire after baby born ‘without face’
A doctor already under investigation for failing to detect birth anomalies is back in the news this month after one his patients gave birth to a baby without a face.
The Lancet says Portugal’s State health service doesn’t respond to people’s needs
The Lancet medical journal has warned that Portugal is one of only four countries – out of 33 analysed by the World Health Organisation – that reduced public health expenditure