The Medical Association reveals that 10 interns “will have to leave” the Amadora-Sintra Hospital, “as training is not being guaranteed to them”. At issue is a process that has been dragging on, in its final phase, since September of last year.
A (OM) considers that Hospital Fernando Fonseca (Amadora-Sintra) is unable to ensure the training of the 10 intern doctors with specific training, who “will have to leave”.
The information was given this Wednesday by the president of the Southern Regional Council of the Medical Association (OM), Paulo Simões.
The responsible entities of the Order considered “that the Hospital was neither capable nor able to ensure this training and the 10 specific training interns who are there will have to leave, as well as the general training interns, since there is no training of these inmates within the Hospital must be ensured”, he said at a press conference.
Paulo Simões met this Wednesday with several of these hospital interns and communicated the decision to journalists at the end of the meeting, in a press conference in which the president of the National Council of Internal Physicians, José Durão, and Fernando Pereira were also present. , from the National Postgraduate Council.
“It was their own intention”
Fernando Pereira also told journalists that the exit was already a wish of the resident doctors and that there were already requests for some of them to be transferred to other hospitals. “More than being an imposition of the Order, it was their own intention, in order to protect their medical training”, he said.
Paulo Simões recalled that this is a process that has been going on, in its last phase, since September last year, related to the surgery service at Hospital Amadora Sintra). At the end of October, 10 surgeons left the hospital due to the return of two other doctors who had reported bad practices in the service, which were not confirmed.
The official also said that last September he warned the hospital management about the risk of “the service imploding” given the possibility of the two doctors who had left on mobility returning, a warning that, he said, was not valued, with the administration judge that the threat of doctors leaving would not materialize.
The truth, he said, is that in January the service “practically disappeared”. And to make matters worse, the management of the College of General Surgery assessed the training capacity of the service, last November, and found “that there are no minimum conditions for the training of interns with specific training in general surgery at the hospital”.
According to the person responsible, the situation “was the subject of an in-depth analysis” in the various bodies within the OM that have this responsibility, and everyone considered that the hospital was unable to ensure this training.
It is up to the regulatory bodies to assess the conditions of assistance to the population that currently has the surgery service at Hospital Amadora-Sintra, said Paulo Simões, according to whom the service is currently unable to guarantee the number of surgeries, because the number of specialists has increased. from 27 to seven. And he also said he knew, informally, that surgeries were postponed and that the Oncology service was concerned about failures.
The future, he admitted, depends on the hospital’s ability to attract specialists. And regarding the release date of inmates, he said that it is now a bureaucratic and administrative process.
