All resigning professionals “will remain in office until their effective replacement and the definition of the organizational solution that will be determined”.
After of the head and deputy head of the General Emergency team, also the clinical director of Primary Health Care at Local Health Unit (ULS) Amadora-Sintra and his deputies decided to resign from their positions.
In a message sent this Wednesday to all ULS professionals, to which SIC had access, the hospital’s Board of Directors informs that doctor Mário Rui Machado Cruz resigned “from the cumulative and transitional exercise of the executive functions of clinical director for the area of Hospital Health Care”.
Also the the Deputy Clinical Directors for the area of Hospital Health Care, doctors João Tiago Serra, José Marcus Eulálio, Catarina Luís and Tereza Diniz da Costa, resigned from their respective roles, a decision that has already been formally communicated to the Board of Directors.
“The current institutional context, also marked by the dismissal of the previous clinical director for the area of Hospital Health Care and the termination of duties of its president, generates natural discomfort and increased constraints in the management and normal functioning of the organization”, writes the Board of Directors.
To ensure the “continuity, safety and quality of healthcare provision”, all resigning professionals “will remain in office until their effective replacement and the definition of the organizational solution that will be determined”.
The South Zone Doctors’ Union revealed this Tuesday that the “critical situation” experienced in the emergency room of the Amadora-Sintra Hospital from Friday to Saturday led to the .
The union that belongs to the National Federation of Doctors blames the administration of Amadora-Sintra for the “incapacity of management” and recalls that this administration has been resigning since November last year.
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 has not yet been replaced.
