Users of Hospital de Loures are concerned about the plan to reorganize obstetric emergencies. Beatriz Ângelo will now receive cases sent by five local health units, but doctors say the hospital does not have enough professionals.
O (HBA) will start to receive the most complex cases referred by the Local Health Units of the West, Médio Tejo, Lezíria and Esttuário do Tejo, a result of the new referral network of the (SNS).
The Users Committee is unhappy with this measure. The person responsible Fernanda Santos explains that the Loures Hospital has several problemsincluding emergency obstetrics.
“We will have an increase in users who will go to the HBA without an increase in doctors”, he says.
Also André Arrais Gomes, president of (FNAM), predicts days difficult for the urgency of Loures.
“This translates into more kilometers for pregnant women, and we cannot forget births in ambulances, which in 2025 was already a record”, he points out.
This regional urgency, where some of the cases that until now went to the starts operating on Monday, but, To date, there has been no reinforcement of the medical teamaccording to the union.
“There is no significant reinforcement of professionals. In fact, as far as we know, there is no reinforcement of the medical team, but there are more users. The Government is preparing a collapse”, explains the head of FNAM.
To the newspaper Diogo Ayres, the project coordinator, admits that There are several hospitals in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region with staff far below what is recommended.
On the South Bank of the Tagus, the should be the next to become a regional emergency, forcing the closure of the
