This is the longest waiting time among the main hospitals in the country at the moment and includes patients waiting for first care, after triage.
Emergency patients (with a yellow bracelet) are waiting an average of 10 hours and 19 minutes to be seen at Hospital Fernando Fonseca (Amadora-Sintra).
This data is available on . This is the longer waiting time among the main hospitals in the country.
In this health unit, very urgent patients (orange bracelet) waited an average of one hour and two minuteswhile the less urgent ones (green bracelet) waited 11 hours and 27 minutes for the service.
These data refer to the average waiting time for care in the last two hours and the number of patients presented includes those awaiting first careafter screening, and test results.
In Loures, waiting time is around three hours
At Hospital Beatriz Ângelo, in Loures, 31 patients with a yellow bracelet (urgent) were waiting for a average time of three hours and 12 minutes in the central emergency room, while the wait for very urgent patients (orange bracelet) was 23 minutes.
The 15 least urgent patients (green bracelet) had to wait, on average, seven hours and ten minutes.
At Hospital São Francisco Xavier (Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Oeste), 21 urgent patients waited an average of two hours and 26 minutes, longer than at Hospital Santa Maria (Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte), where the 16 urgent patients waited an average of one hour and 39 minutes.
In Porto, 26 urgent patients were waiting for care at the central emergency department of Hospital de São João, with an average waiting time of two hours and two minutes.
The SNS Executive Board calls on the population to always call SNS Line 24 [808 24 24 24] before going to an emergency room.
