The case was reported by the victim’s daughter to the ULS of Alto Alentejo, which began the investigation after filing a formal complaint. THE The incident occurred during the transport of a 68-year-old woman from Portalegre Hospital to a CUF group hospital in Lisbon.
The management of the Portalegre hospital opened an internal investigation into a nurse suspected of having attacked and insulted a user, on board an ambulance, when she was going to a hospital in Lisbon, to carry out tests.
A source from the Local Health Unit (ULS) of Alto Alentejo told the Lusa agency this Friday that an investigation was opened against the nurse and that the professional was “provisionally suspended” from patient transport activitiesafter the administration of that hospital became aware, through the user’s daughter, of this case that occurred on Friday.
A who wrote, this Thursday, that the The incident occurred during the transport of a 68-year-old woman from Portalegre hospital to a CUF group hospital in Lisbonand the Alto Alentejo ULS initiated an internal investigation into the case, after the family of the assaulted woman filed a complaint.
The same newspaper said that the motivations for the alleged aggression, which must have occurred in the middle of the trip, are still unknown, and that the user, who was traveling from the Portalegre hospital to Lisbon, to undergo an exam, ended up carrying it out, having returned home on the same day.
A The user’s daughter, according to Observador, “has already been received” by the board of directors of ULS do Alto Alentejo and filed a complaint against the nurse in question.
“It was following this complaint that ULS decided to open the investigation”, the newspaper wrote.
