The nurse director resigned and the nursing team nursing General Emergency Service presented a declaration of disclaimer.
The Board of Directors of the Local Health Unit from Amadora/Sintra holds the Ministry of Health responsible for the constraints in the emergency service.
In a statement sent to newsrooms, the administration informs that “the Nurse Director presented her request to the guardianship yesterday resignation from the position” and the nursing team of the General Emergency Service presented a declaration of disclaimer.
For the Council of Administration, the Ministry of Health is not exempt from responsibility for the crisis faced by the hospital.
The president of ULS Amadora-Sintra, Carlos Sá, resigned at the beginning of November, following a case involving the death of a pregnant woman, and it has not yet been replaced.
“Since November, the President of the Board of Directors has been repeatedly asking the supervisory authority for his rapid replacement, in order to guarantee the governance conditions of an institution with the complexity of ULS Amadora/Sintra, which has not yet occurred”, the note reads.
Furthermore, “a plan of structural reorganization of the service, which has been awaiting approval” since September 2025, when “operational difficulties in the General Emergency Service were already anticipated.
To the “significant constraints on National Service of Health” adds to the pressure caused by the “seasonal influx”.
The Board of Directors is said to be “available for a constructive institutional dialogue, in conjunction permanent supervision and with the competent entities, namely the Order of Nurses, in search of structural, sustainable and lasting solutions”.
