The Centro Hospitalar do Algarve may lose its authorization to train orthopedists, following a recommendation from the College of this specialty of the Portuguese Medical Association (OM), which visited the Orthopedics Service of the Algarve hospitals a few weeks ago.
The announcement was made by the president of the Southern Regional Council of OM Jaime Teixeira Mendes, during a reception ceremony to the new inmates of the Algarve's health units, which took place this Thursday, in Faro.
Jaime Mendes says that this CHA service "is under serious threat" of losing its training suitability, that is, the authorization to train specialists in the area. At issue are the various problems related to the quality of training provided in that service, which CHA leaders have six months to correct if they do not want to see this decision become official.
“The service was visited and was not given the reputation. And you will lose it if you don't modify several parameters, required by the College of Orthopedics, until the new visit that will take place in six months», said the leader of the Order of Physicians.
“One of the things that negatively impressed our Orthopedics colleagues was a complaint from the inmates, who say that the chairman of the Board of Directors Pedro Nunes did not authorize any of them to go to an orthopedics congress. And this visit to congresses is part of the training, even because some had work to present. Well, this is a dictatorial decision», considered Jaime Teixeira Mendes, in a conversation with journalists, on the sidelines of the session.
For over two years, the Hospital of Faro lost the formative competence in Surgery (remains in Portimão), not having recovered it since then. Recently, the Anesthesiology service will also have been close to losing its capacity to train specialists, but «it seems to have solved the problems and will have received interns», from the new wave of 149 doctors who started specialization or the regular year in the Algarve.
The same did not happen with the Orthopedics service, which, although of having serious medical shortage problems, did not receive any intern in 2016.
The loss of formative competence in Surgery, at the Hospital de Faro, and the threats to the training capacity of the Orthopedics and Anesthesiology services are linked "to the infamous merger of the Algarve hospitals and the creation of the CHA", a measure that "greatly aggravates" the problems that already existed before the creation of the Hospital Center and to which Jaime Mendes does not recognize "even a virtue".
On the other hand, they are the responsibility of the current administration, led by Pedro Nunes, which the president of the Southern Regional Council of the OM considers to have been of «poor quality» and which was based «on the economic drift of health policies that occurred in the last four years old".
Jaime Mendes even wanted Pedro Nunes to "go away quickly", taking into account that his term ended on December 31, 2015.
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