Loures, Amadora and Caldas da Rainha are the hospitals that this Wednesday have the longest waiting time for emergency care, all exceeding three hours, according to the National Health Service portal ().
According to the SNS internet portal that indicates waiting times for general emergency care consulted by the Lusa agency, the longest waiting time in emergency rooms was, at 10:30, at the Beatriz Ângelo hospital, in Loures.
This hospital located in the Lisbon district had a waiting time of nine hours and 33 minutes, with 15 people in line, for patients considered urgent (the recommended waiting time for these patients is 60 minutes), but the time decreases drastically for very urgent ones, with a wait of 11 minutes.
Also in the Lisbon district, the Fernando Fonseca hospital (also known as Amadora-Sintra) had a waiting time of eight hours and 21 minutes for urgent patients and one hour and 18 minutes for very urgent ones.
In Caldas da Rainha, the Centro Hospitalar do Oeste recorded, at 10:30, a waiting time of four hours and six minutes, with one person waiting.
Despite the waiting times recorded in the emergency rooms of these three units, of the 42 hospitals with a general emergency service consulted this Wednesday by the Lusa agency on the SNS portal, the vast majority complied with the recommended waiting time for urgent patients.
The hospitals in Braga (two hours and 52 minutes), Setúbal (two hours and 33 minutes), Portimão (two hours and 26 minutes), São Francisco Xavier, in Lisbon (two hours and 20 minutes) and Cascais (two hours and four minutes) also missed the recommended waiting time, all remaining above two hours of waiting time for urgent patients.
Guimarães (one hour and 48 minutes), Famalicão (one hour and 31 minutes), Portalegre (one hour and 44 minutes), Beja (one hour and a half), Vila Franca de Xira (one hour and nine minutes), Barcelos (one hour and eight minutes) and Leiria (one hour and six minutes) also had waiting times of more than one hour.
The Manchester triage, which allows the user’s clinical risk to be assessed and a level of priority to be assigned, includes five levels: emergent (red bracelet), very urgent (orange), urgent (yellow), somewhat urgent (green) and non-urgent ( blue).
In the case of a yellow bracelet, the first service should not take more than 60 minutes, and in the case of a green bracelet, the recommendation is that it should not take longer than 120 minutes (two hours).
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