Special report
It works 24 hours a day, every day of the year, with the aim of saving lives. The National Institute of Emergency Medical (INEM) is one of the most important services in the country, but there has been a long time that has signs of degradation and lack of human resources. In the last four years, almost 370 prehospital emergency technicians have come out. “Mission 112” is the title of this special report.
Lenisa has been a prehospital emergency technique for a decade. Every year, it thinks about giving up the profession. It is for the love of the nightgown that can handle the challenges and pressure of those who hear every day requests for help.
“Although we don’t want to, it’s impossible not to feel the call stress. There are more difficult days. More striking situations. In the so -called difficult to realize that that person, no matter how much it treats us, is in need of us,” says Lenisa Elsig, Prehospital emergency technique.
In the last year, more than four thousand calls per day were attended in the four urgent patient orientation centers that exist in the country. About 450 calls diarias They were, in fact, .
When technicians are triggered for these cases, they are unavailable to those who really need it. Increases waiting time and in more critical situations, it can cost lives.
“There are people who are at the time of distress and want to send means and that is not what we want. The means are finite. There is a situation in which it is necessary may not be available and are of utmost importance to the population,” explains Fernando Sá e Silva, Pre-hospital emergency technician.
Material resources but above all human are finite. O tem 1071 prehospital emergency technicians working across the country for a population greater than 10.5 million.
It is a number considered insufficient for the significant increase in requests for help.
The criterion is defined by the so -called sorting which has three established priorities:
- Priority 1: SMore serious Ituations that require means such as emergency medical vehicle/immediate life support ambulance or helicopter.
- Priority 3: It is the most common and an ambulance is sent with two prehospital emergency technicians.
Every minute count and so the Information about who needs help They are just the necessary ones. The ambulance, even though it has more than recommended miles, is ready to start.
