Patients in the Algarve who need orthopedic services, which currently do not exist in the Algarve region, can now be treated in Lisbon, or in Setúbal. The agreement that guarantees this assistance was signed yesterday, at the headquarters of the ARS in Lisbon and Vale do Tejo, and encompasses the Hospital Centers Lisboa Norte and Lisboa Central and the Hospital Center of Setúbal.
The Algarve Regional Health Administration (ARS) announces that this agreement «has the objective of filling the insufficiencies of assistance capacity in the Hospital Center of the Algarve, guaranteeing an effective and quick accessibility of the citizens of the Algarve Region to hospital care in specialties and specific areas , in this specific case, in Orthopedics”.
The Hospital Centers Lisboa Norte, Lisboa Central and Setúbal, through a weekly rotation schedule, now receive and treat «all users that the Hospital Center of the Algarve is not able to treat locally in its emergency services». in the area of Orthopedics.
The Centro Hospitalar do Algarve is in charge of providing the means and support so that users are «duly transferred to the facilities of these units, according to the rotating weekly schedule».
The document was signed by Joaquim Ramalho, the new chairman of the Board of Directors of Centro Hospitalar do Algarve, and his counterparts from the three Hospital Centers in the Lisbon and Vale do Tejo Region, that is, Carlos Martins, from Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, Ana Escoval, from CH Lisboa Central, and Manuel Roque Santos, from CH de Setúbal.
The lack of resources in the specialty of Orthopedics at CHA has already led to a man who broke a leg in Tavira was transported to Beja to be treated, or at the suggestion of the former president of CH Algarve Pedro Nunes do cancellation of a mountain bike race in São Brás de Alportel, for not being able to guarantee the means to treat eventual victims of an accident.
This agreement is part of the Protocol for Interregional Cooperation in Hospital Assistance to Users of the Hospital Center of the Algarve, which was established on 11 March between the presidents of the Board of Directors of the ARS Algarve, Alentejo and Lisbon and Vale do Tejo.
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