Hospitals in Faro and Portimão of the Hospital and University Center of the Algarve (CHUA) have fewer than 40 nurses since the beginning of February, a decision that, for Cristóvão Norte, Algarve deputy of the PSD, "smacks of absurdity".
This situation had already been denounced by the Union of Portuguese Nurses, who also alerted to the fact that CHUA did not have «authorization from the Government to hire the necessary professionals to replace them».
Nurses who left hospitals were transferred to health centers.
Now, "this decision reveals poor management of human resources, deficient organization and a flagrant lack of strategy, so it is necessary for the Government to take the necessary measures to promptly resolve the situation, immediately with the urgent opening of a competition to fill these 40 vacancies » according to Cristóvão Norte and José Carlos Barros, PSD deputies elected by the Algarve constituency.
The parliamentarians are wondering "whether the tender for hospitals could not have been opened in time, as it was already known that the candidates for the health centers were nurses from hospitals in the region", they add.
Cristóvão Norte stresses that “it is known that there are chronic problems in the region. Adding poor management, poor coordination and a dramatic lack of strategy is unjustified. This is an absurd example. Open competition now, it is essential».
“All the main indicators have worsened and health continues to move away from the Algarve. It is necessary to strengthen the resources, doctors and nurses and move towards a new central hospital. The Government will move towards four new hospitals and the Algarve, which since 2006 has been the second priority, is once again left out», he explains.
In January, the chairman of the Board of Directors of CHUA Ana Paula Gonçalves assured the Sul Informação– and to the union – which had already been authorization was requested from the tutelage to integrate "54 nurses, to replace those who will transfer to primary health units", following the competition that was launched at national level.
These professionals they would join 42 other nurses, whose hiring "only waits for authorization from the guardianship", a contingent that will come to «fill the gaps» pointed out for a long time by the union, which has been warning of a chronic shortage of nurses in the Algarve's hospitals.
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