More than 70% vacancies for newly specialists of general and family medicine were to occupy, according to official data from the Central Administration of the Health System (ACSS), advanced to Lusa, this Wednesday.
72% of 225 vacancies for newly specialists of general and family medicine and 40% of the 15 public health, in the last contest for recruitment of 240 doctors, were filling.
“Once the competition process-special epoch, intended for the hiring of newly specialists for the areas of General and Family Medicine (MGF) and Public Health (SP), we inform you that they were 63 vacancies occupied em MGF [28%] and 9 in SP [60%]”, Says ACSS in a response to Lusa agency.
Despite the vacancies for occupying, at the end of December, in an interview with the president of the National Federation of Doctors (FNAM) Joana Bordalo and Sá criticized the reduced number of vacancies for general and family medicine.
The leader pointed out that the great need for users.
Who needs cannot open vacancies
Joana Bordalo and Sá, from FNAM, already said in December that she knew that many vacancies would be to occupy, because if they are opening vacancies in a discrepant way.
Furthermore, Who needs cannot open vacancies“If ULS cannot open them, people cannot compete,” he said, accusing the health protection of “Reiterated incompetence or blockade“.
In this case, for example, the ULS of Almada-Seixal (Ulsa), which asked to open 14 vacancies for this specialty, and Only 1 was granted.
Problem: There are 38,000 users of this ULS without a family doctor.
In the second season of 2024, there were 75 doctors to finish the specialty of general and family medicine. Three doctors who ended their specialty in the second season at Ulsas They intended to stayand that was not allowed.
There are less worrying cases, but they also fell far short of expected. ULS Tâmega and Sousa, for example, ordered 11 vacancies and was only entitled to one. However, this hospital guarantees family doctor to all users.
PLACES BY REGION
According to data from ACSS, the largest number of vacancies occupied (22) for family doctors was in the North region, distributed by the local health units (ULS) of Barcelos/Esposende (1), Braga (2), between Douro and Vouga (5), Gaia and Espinho (1), Matosinhos (2), Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (9), Alto Minho (1) and Tâmega and Sousa (1).
Dezanove doctors are working in ULS in the region of Lisbon and Vale and Tagus, namely in Arrábida (1), Lezíria (1), Almada Seixal (1), Amadora-Sintra (2), Western Lisbon (4), Santa Maria (1), São José (5), riverside arc (1), Tagus estuary (1) and Middle Tagus (2).
The data need 12 family doctors to be placed in ULS in the Central Region, spread throughout the local health units of Aveiro (1), Leiria (6), Coimbra (3) and Dam-Laphão (2).
Four are in the Algarve ULS and six in the Alentejo region, distributed by ULS of the Central Alentejo (1) and Baixo Alentejo (5).
Regarding public health doctors, two were placed in the Centro region, namely in the ULS Viseu Dão-Lafões and Baixo Mondego), one in Lisbon and Tagus Valley (ULS São José) and three in the North Uls Santo António region, Trá -os -Montes and Alto Douro and Tâmega and Sousa.
The ACSS now underlines that the total vacancies available in the contest took into account the 64 newly specialists, formed at the special time of 2024, and the newly specialists trained at previous evaluation seasons, not definitive bonds in the NHS.
Of the 64 newly specialist doctors trained in the special time of 2024, were PLACED 33 (51.6%).
