The family, who intend to file a police report, were informed that the man was discharged due to abandonment due to not answering several calls, but the patient ended up being found lifeless in the emergency room at around 5:30 am in the morning. next day, the 10th.
“Before we know that it was a failure, we need to know what happened and an investigation was opened to understand what happened. We always have to know the things that went less well, [se há] room to improve, but we need to understand exactly what happened”, said António Gandra d’Almeida, before a visit to the Hospital de Portimão, in the district of Faro.
As RTP revealed on Saturday, the man was found dead in the emergency room of the University of Coimbra Hospitals on November 10, after waiting more than 10 hours.
The victim, who felt unwell after eating mushrooms that he had collected, went to the Tábua Health Center on November 9, and was transferred in the early afternoon of that day to Coimbra, where he waited hours for care.
The family, who intend to file a police report, were informed that the man was discharged due to abandonment due to not answering several calls, but the patient ended up being found lifeless in the emergency room at around 5:30 am in the morning. next day, the 10th.
This Monday, the executive director of the SNS highlighted that “things that go less well must be avoided”.
“When there are thousands of visits every day in the emergency room and they go very well, perhaps we should focus more on what goes well and try to resolve when there are things that go less well”, he added.
António Gandra d’Almeida concluded in the Algarve a sequence of three visits to Local Health Units carried out today, which began in Santarém (ULS Lezíria) and continued in Beja (ULS Baixo Alentejo).
