New €4.6 million health centre opens in Lisbon with shortage of doctors
A new health centre in the Alcântara district of Lisbon was inaugurated today and is already up and running, after an investment of €4.6 million, to serve around 15,700 patients,
Death of elderly woman on stretcher in A&E focuses attention on ‘chaos in health system’
Authorities stress woman was in “end of life” situation The death of an elderly woman on a stretcher in a packed A&E in northern Portugal has focused media attention –
Emigrés “outraged” over decision to withdraw free healthcare
Measure comes into force on January 1 A little pre-published decision taking away the right to free health care in Portugal of those who have left the country for the
Private sector “available to deepen relationship with State health service”
Óscar Gaspar, the President of APAH (the Portuguese Association of Private Hospitalisation) says his sector is ready to deepen relations, “in a strategic and planned form”, with the SNS State
Olhão achieves 100% family doctor coverage
Every citizen in Olhão now has a family doctor “An example to be replicated throughout the rest of the country” – this is how Portugal’s Minister of Health has described
Strike and lack of doctors aggravates Portugal’s health crisis
Thousands (more) surgeries, consultations and health exams at risk Thousands of planned surgeries, consultations and health tests and exams are at risk this week as doctors continue to insist a
Health centres lack “almost everything”
Study reveals “unprecedented lack of essential material” In a year in which the government promised “the largest ever budget” for Portugal’s SNS (State health service) lack of essential supplies to
Crisis in Portuguese health service: “Without reorganisation pieces will break off”
Marcelo encourages speedy resolution to Execution Direction’s state of limbo Portugal’s president has insisted on the need to determine the new organisational framework for the SNS (Portuguese State health service),
Chaos in Portugal’s health system
“If you have a heart attack in Nazaré this weekend, nearest hospital will be 100 kms away…” The chaos created by doctors’ refusal to carry out more than the legally
Survival of Portugal’s SNS State health service at risk – Order of Physicians
Doctors’ entity following negotiations between unions and government with “immense apprehension” The Order of Physicians (Ordem dos Médicos) is “following negotiations between the unions and the Ministry of Health, which