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Ambulance births increased in 2025, totaling more than 60. Alberto Caldas Afonso, president of National Commission for Women’s Health, believes that it would be double if measures such as referral of pregnant women had not been implemented.
Alberto Caldas Afonso, president of National Commission for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health, considers that Dozens of babies born before arriving at the hospital, many due to SNS referral problems, would have been even more if measures had not been taken.
“With regard to the issue of women and obstetrics gynecology emergencies, the measures that have been implemented for around 6, 7 months (…), we can say that if this were not done, at this moment we would certainly have more than double or triple the number of emergencies closed“, he pointed out on the SIC Notícias antenna.
From your perspective, “the measures had and have an impact” and remembers that “the number of obstetrics gynecology specialists, even if they were all working in the SNS, with the 39 ULS that have an open birth center service, we would still have a 30% deficit that would have to be supplemented with overtime.”
The key is really attract professionals from the private to the publicwith the SNS being “the only place where we have an answer for minimally complicated situations”.
As for the flu, he emphasizes that vaccination is essential.
