Garcia de Orta Hospital
Garcia de Orta Hospital has an urgency 24 hours a day but only in September. The reinforcements come from the private sector.
The Minister of Health announced that the Garcia de Orta Hospital will have the 24 -hour open obstetrics urgency per day from September, with the reinforcement of doctors who were in the private and that will integrate the NHS.
In an interview with, Ana Paula Martins acknowledged that the Setúbal Peninsula is the “most critical area” in the answer to gynecology e obstetrics And he said that, from September 1, the Garcia de Orta Hospital will be open 24 hours a day.
This opening will be possible through a medical team that was in the private sector and will join the Garcia de Orta Hospital, said the ruler, admitting that he will lead, however, “Some time to be able to stabilize the Setúbal Peninsula ”in this health care response.
“There is a team of Obstetrics and Gynecology experts who has detached itself from the private hospital where I worked” and will sign a contract with a national health service, the minister explained.
According to it, this set of six experts will join the “team that still exists” in Garcia de Orta and will also count on the Internal doctors that are in training at the health unit.
For now, admitted the minister, the urgency of obstetrics of Garcia de Orta will only be open for 11 days during this month of July.
Air transportation
About the public tender for the air transportation Emergency, Ana Paula Martins admitted that “It wasn’t perfect”but refused that the government “left the issue of helicopters for the last”, adding that the contest was opened in November.
“The contest was complex”, He pointed out the Minister of Health, advancing that a company to whom the service was awarded by 2030 failed to start the operation on July 1 with four helicopters, as provided for the contract, for having “need to have trained drivers”, which “has been hiring”.
He also mentioned that, within a “month and a half at most”, the conditions will be gathered to start the expected operation, recognizing that it was requested “Help” to the Air Force to ensure medical emergency transport there.
Regional emergency
Joana Bordalo and Sá does not believe in regional emergencies. The president of the National Federation of Doctors (FNAM) sees in this extent a “Announced tragedy”.
“Because pregnant women will have to continue travel kilometers, kilometers and kilometers to be attended to, ”he justified at TSF.
Joana warns that the situation of emergency “It gets worse From day to day and it is not just on the south bank ”, giving examples of Aveiro and Braga to talk about“ widespread degradation ”.
The FNAM leader recalls that last year, 50 babies were born in ambulances; This year 36 have been born. “This is not normal.”
