Patients with a yellow bracelet have to wait more than nine hours to be treated at the Almada hospital.
Access to emergencies continues to have long waiting times, with the districts of Setúbal and Lisbon among the most affected, according to data available on the National Health Service website.
Garcia de Orta Hospital, in Almada, is the unit where waiting times are highest. According to the at 7:50 am, an urgent patient (yellow bracelet) had to wait an average of nine hours and 18 minutes and there were 17 people waiting for care after triage.
At Amadora-Sintra Hospital, the average waiting time for an urgent patient was six hours and 40 minutes and there were six people waiting. At Beatriz Ângelo, in Loures, the wait was seven hours and 30 minutes, with six people to be seen.
At Hospital Santa Maria, in Lisbon, a user with a yellow bracelet waited an hour and 20 minutes.
At Hospital São João, in Porto, the waiting time for urgent patients exceeded two hours.
These waiting times are not in line with what is recommended by the SUS, which states that an urgent patient should not wait more than an hour to be seen.
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Ana Paula Martins acknowledged, however, that there are very long waiting times.
In recent days, there were patients who waited around 17 hours in emergency rooms in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region.
