"80 to 100" medical assistants are lacking at the Algarve Hospital Center (CHA), a shortage which, together with the technical staff, "may soon lead to a reduction in inpatient beds and the closure of services", denounced the Union of Workers in Public and Social Functions in the South and Autonomous Regions.
The union members launched a public alert for the lack of this type of professionals in public hospitals in the Algarve, who, like doctors and nurses, are “essential for the proper functioning of any service”.
The shortcomings are leading CHA's technical and auxiliary staff to find themselves “confronted with shifts with overtime work”, which makes them “reaching exhaustion”.
"Whenever we question the Administration for the excess of additional work by technical and auxiliary personnel, we are told that there is a lack of personnel and they are not authorized to hire more workers," the union assured.
The union members recalled, even though the minister of Health has already guaranteed, on several occasions, "the hiring of more doctors and nurses for the NHS, without ever mentioning the hiring of personnel from other careers." But, they warn, in hospitals “we work as a team, “which includes technical career workers and assistants (operational assistants)”.
Due to the lack of personnel, there are "professionals in technical careers and operational assistants who are reaching exhaustion without being able to give the proper response that the NHS requires and the users deserve", warned the union.
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