Professor Doctor Fernando Fonseca Hospital
400 daily admissions, lack of doctors and beds, 13 hours waiting for a first observation (in April)… Fernando Fonseca Hospital is in rupture on several levels. “It’s never been this bad.”
At a time (post-winter) when hospitals should already be in a calmer phase, the Amadora-Sintra Hospital remains chaotic.
As reported by , this week, urgent patients (yellow bracelet) waited almost 13 hours for a first observation and very urgent (orange) more than four hours.
Furthermore, there is a lack of doctors and stretcherswhen the (also called) Hospital Professor Doutor Fernando Fonseca is the largest in the country in terms of the number of residents it serves, having up to 400 daily admissions.
The weekly also highlights that the Emergency teams have already named the hospital as “Amadora-Syria” – in an allusion to a war scenario.
“We are in a very difficult situation, even deep down. It’s never been so badit’s been exhausting. During the day the team is very lacking”, the internist reveals to the newspaper. Mario Ferreira31 years old.
“The love of a sweater counts for a lot in this house. If it weren’t like this, things would be much more difficult (…) But this has a limit”, reports, in turn, Tiago Serraclinical director of Hospital Health Care.
In the corridors, tetris is played to fit all the stretchers and people into one environment described as “heavy, noisy, messy, tense”.
Expresso says that a plan is being drawn up (which should be presented in the summer), which will integrate, for example, the construction of another building to hospitalization or the reduction of the emergency reference area.
