The data are referring the last four years and concern the foreigners who do not live in the country.
In four years, almost 330 thousand foreign people, not resident in Portugal, were treated in public hospitals. More than 140 thousand of these users were not covered by insurance or international agreements that cover such assistance.
Through the emergency room doorss of the country’s various hospitalsmore and more foreign people who do not reside in Portugal. SOh this year, until September, were attended toos over 92 mil foreignerse 49,3% didn’t have any insurance or international agreement pWe buy to cover the cost of assistance. Tmiss out on one 7% increase, comparing with 2023.
The accounts are from General Inspection of Health Activities, who collected the data from the country’s 39 local unitsnan auditwho wanted to take stock and understand the impact of the call “health tourism”.
From 2021, almost 330 thousand people without official residence in Portugal were served. In the region of Lisboa, o São José Hospital stands out: it received about 12% of these users, last year. MMany are tourists.
A specialty of obstetrics and the one that receives the most users non-resident foreigners.
Sabout the women who come to Portugal to have babieso President of the Republic considers it important to understand the weight that the phenomenon tem no SNS.
In the inspection report da Shealth, it is clear that thes payments the provision of this carethey are the responsibility of users, but it is not disclosed whether they were carried out.
The minister from Shealth had already admitted looking for information, but Ana Paula Martinshas not yet commented on the data now released.
