Drunk English teenager rescued from Praia da Rocha cliff fall âruns away from hospital to carry on drinkingâ
A young English teenager fell 20-metres backwards off a cliff in Praia da Rocha in the early hours of Saturday morning. Despite being described by media reports as âgravely injuredâ,
Explosion at Vila do Bispo wind farm sees critically burned workers airlifted to hospital
A freak explosion in a turbine at Vila do Bispoâs wind farm yesterday has caused horrific burns to two workers, both of whom are now fighting for their lives in
Horrific weekend sees two three-year-olds drown in Portuguese swimming pools
Two three-year-old boys â one of them English â drowned in separate tragedies in Portugal last weekend. One drowned on holiday with his family in Ăbidos, the other in Lagos.The
INEM investigates âless than professionalâ online photos
INEM has opened a ârigorous investigation to apportion blameâ over âless than professionalâ photos posted on social media of two staff smiling and posing for cameras as they prepare life-saving
Life-saving training being introduced to students
INEM and the national education board (DGE) have signed an agreement that will see the introduction of âlive-savingâ basic life support training for students from seventh to ninth grade, as
INEM insists on firemen reanimating two-day old corpse
Firemen in Vieira do Minho are up-in-arms over the insistence of an emergency services telephone operator that they try to resuscitate a two-day-old corpse. As emergency services throughout the country
INEM launches checklist following health alert as temperatures plummet
Itâs going to get very cold in the next few days, so while hospitals prepare for the likely influx of emergencies, INEM has launched a checklist of tips to keep
Ambulance petition
A group petitioning for the Alcantarilha INEM ambulance to stay in the town collected a total of 739 signatures during the Algoz market on Monday, July 14. The petition, launched
Alcantarilha residents fight to keep âonly ambulance in townâ
Alcantarilha || A group of residents from Alcantarilha is pulling out all stops to ensure that the National Institute for Medical Emergencies (INEM) does not remove the only ambulance in
Albufeira emergency vehicle âout of commissionâ for 16 hours
Hot-on-the-heels of last weekâs tragedy where a VMER special ambulance was âout of commisionâ for two hours in which an emergency patient died, Correio da ManhĂŁ reveals that the VMER