Professor Doctor Fernando Fonseca Hospital
New version contradicts the Health Minister’s words. Baby also died, one day after her mother’s death.
The administration of the Hospital Amadora-Sintra acknowledged last night that the pregnant 36 years old who on Friday, after being discharged days before, was being monitored in primary health care since July.
In a statement, the board of directors of the Amadora-Sintra Local Health Unit (ULSASI) revealed that, “due to the lack of an information system fully integrated clinic, which allows automatic sharing of data and medical records between different services and units […]only today (Sunday) 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, in the Personalized Health Care Unit (UCSP) of Agualva”.
According to a statement from the hospital administration, the woman did two queries pregnancy surveillance, on July 14th and August 14th, having carried out consultations obstetrics not hospital Fernando Fonseca, in Amadora, on September 17th and October 29th, the latter two days before dying.
The administration of that ULS highlighted that this monitoring information since July has now been transmitted to the minister of healthAna Paula Martins, and that the statements made by the governor, in the Assembly of the Republic, where said the woman had not been monitored prior, they had “for information base and the statement issued by ULSATION, which referred to the specific episode that preceded the fatal outcome, which took place on October 31st, at Hospital Fernando Fonseca”.
In statements to SIC and CMTV, the family of the woman had already assured that the pregnancy was being monitored at that health unit.
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 she was admitted to the hospital, and was immediately assisted with all the prescribed procedures.
At the time, ULSASI said that the pregnant woman went to the Amadora-Sintra hospital on Wednesday “asymptomatic” for a routine consultation, during which she was identified with mild hypertension.
The woman, according to the specialist, “was just out of extra care sent to the emergency room”, where pre-eclampsia, one of the complications of pregnancy, was screened for and had alta with indication for hospitalization at 39 weeks of gestation.
According to the director, the pregnant woman, born in Guinea-Bissau, had recently arrived in Portugal and was referred for an obstetrics specialty consultation with a full-term pregnancy. early.
According to the website, “the normal duration of a pregnancy varies between 37 and 42 weeks, with the birth date being calculated at 40 weeks of gestation, which means that a baby born before 37 weeks of gestational age is considered premature”.
At the same time, Diogo Bruno said that the board of directors determined the opening of a inquiry internal to investigate all the contexts of this case, “it is certain that there will be results from this investigation later”.
The General Inspectorate of Health Activities also ordered the establishment of an inquiry process to evaluate the assistance provided to pregnant women, as did the Health Regulatory Authority, which announced the opening of an evaluation process with the same objective.
On Saturday morning, the one born by emergency cesarean section also died, one day after her mother’s death.
