The Hospital de Lagos will remain open, despite the changes that the Regional Health Administration is preparing to put into practice, in the organization of hospital units in the Algarve. The lacobrigense health unit cannot close, taking into account that 40 acute inpatient beds operate here, which are lacking in the region, defended Paulo Morgado, new president of the Algarve ARS.
“It is still clearly justified to have a hospital in Lagos. The Algarve does not need, nor can it, lose treble beds. The Hospital de Lagos continues to be essential not only for people in that subregion, because it has a Basic Emergency Service that is part of the national emergency and emergency network, but also because the 40 beds it has and the Internal Medicine service are fundamental. for the region," he assured the Sul Informação the also president of the Municipal Assembly of Lacobrigense.
With the creation of the Algarve University Hospital Center, the Hospital de Portimão will recover much of the autonomy it had before the creation of the CHA, in 2011, and should recover all services lost in recent years.. The Hospital de Lagos will remain, as before, closely linked to the hospital unit in Portimão and operating in its current facilities.
Even so, admits Paulo Morgado, "the ideal would be to be able to relocate it and relocate it in other, more dignified and more modern facilities."
If this were to happen, the president of ARS do Algarve recommends that some of the services provided there may be reinforced. «At the time, there was a project and there was even a functional program for a new Hospital in Lagos with other characteristics. A lighter hospital, similar to those in Andalusia. This is an old Lagos aspiration that I think makes perfect sense», he believes.
An eventual investment in Lagos will have to wait, since, admits Paulo Morgado, "there are no financial conditions to move forward", but "it must be on the horizon of the National Health Service".
According to Paulo Morgado, «Portugal has a lower number of treble beds than the European average and the Algarve has a lower average than the national one». In other words, at the moment, there are "fewer beds for acutely ill patients than the national and European average" in the region. One more argument in favor of the maintenance of the Hospital de Lagos.
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