The Regional Health Administration of the Algarve clarified today, in a press release, that by the end of the current year, 132 new beds of different types will be opened in the region, within the scope of the National Network of Continuous Integrated Care in the Algarve Region.
ARS says that its press release is intended to «reset the reality of the facts regarding the hiring of beds within the scope of the National Network of Integrated Continuous Care in the Algarve Region, and thus re-establishing the truth, contradicting ideas that have recently been circulated in the local press", thus responding to the communiqué of the PS/Algarve Federation, which, earlier this week, had expressed his concern with "the neglect of regional entities in the area of health" and with the fact that they allegedly do not authorize "the beginning of operation of units that were even financed by the Ministry of Health itself".
ARS emphasizes that the Units built under the Modeling I and II Program, located more specifically in Aljezur, Azinhal, Estoi and Olhão and which will integrate the RNCCI, are in an advanced stage of construction or even awaiting the necessary licensing by the competent authorities, «situations that are beyond the competence of ARS Algarve IP, and that of Olhão very recently (beginning of February) obtained the respective license for use».
These promoting entities will have a total capacity of 132 beds, 28 of which are medium-duration beds and rehabilitation already existing in the facilities of the former internment of the Health Center of Olhão, to which five new beds will be added, equally of medium duration. and rehabilitation. The remaining 101 beds will be long term and maintenance.
According to the ARS, the opening of 20 convalescent beds is scheduled for March, in the ex-hospitalization of the Loulé Health Center, to be managed by the Hospital de Faro, whose contract ended in August last year, as well as six other medium-term beds and rehabilitation in the Barlavento area.
ARS Algarve adds that «it was only possible to achieve the necessary conditions for the opening of these units, through rigorous management and an adequate and demanding planning, as their respective financial sustainability was not assured».
«The only obstacle to the functioning of the new units is the responsibility of the respective managing entities and resides in the completion of works still in progress or in the completion of the necessary licensing procedures», concludes the Regional Health Administration.
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