According to a statement from the hospital administration, the woman had two pregnancy monitoring appointments, on July 14th and August 14thhaving carried out obstetrics consultations at Hospital Fernando Fonseca, in Amadora, on September 17th and October 29th, the latter two days before he died.
The administration of the Amadora-Sintra Hospital recognized this Sunday that the After being discharged days before, she had been monitored in primary healthcare since July.
In a statement, the board of directors of the Amadora-Sintra Local Health Unit (ULSASI) revealed that, “due to the lack of a fully integrated clinical information system, which allows the automatic sharing of data and medical records between different services and units […]only today at the end of the afternoon was it possible to verify that the user was being monitored in ULSASI’s primary health care since July 2025, at the Personalized Health Care Unit (UCSP) in Agualva”.
According to a statement from the hospital administration, the woman had two pregnancy monitoring appointments, on July 14th and August 14thhaving carried out obstetrics consultations at Hospital Fernando Fonseca, in Amadora, on September 17th and October 29th, the latter two days before he died.
The administration of that ULS highlighted that this Monitoring information since July was transmitted, this Sunday, to the Minister of HealthAna Paula Martins, and that the statements made by the governor, in the Assembly of the Republic, where she said that the woman had not had prior monitoring, were “based on information and the statement issued by ULSASI, which referred to the specific episode that preceded the fatal outcome, which took place on October 31st, at Fernando Fonseca Hospital”.
In statements to SIC and CMTV, the woman’s family had already assured that the pregnancy was being monitored at that health unit.
Woman was in cardiorespiratory arrest
On Friday, the day the 38-week pregnant woman died, the director of the obstetric and gynecological emergency service at Hospital Amadora-Sintra, Diogo Bruno, explained that the woman was in cardiorespiratory arrest when he was admitted to the hospitaland was immediately rescued with all the prescribed procedures.
At the time, ULSASI reported that the pregnant woman went to the Amadora-Sintra hospital on Wednesday “asymptomatic” for a routine consultation, during which she was identified as having mild hypertension.
The woman, according to the specialist, “was just out of extra care sent to the emergency room”, where pre-eclampsia was detectedone of the complications of pregnancy, and was discharged with indication for hospitalization at 39 weeks of gestation.
According to the director, the pregnant woman, from Guinea-Bissau, had recently arrived in Portugal and was referred for an obstetrics specialty consultation with an early term pregnancy.
At the same time, Diogo Bruno mentioned that the board of directors determined the opening of an internal investigation to investigate all contexts of this case, “it is certain that there will be results of this investigation later”.
A General Inspection of Health Activities also ordered the establishment of an investigation process to evaluate the assistance provided to pregnant women, as well as the Health Regulatory Authority which announced the opening of an evaluation process with the same objective.
On Saturday morning, the baby who was born by emergency cesarean section also died, one day after her mother’s death.
