This Friday, May 11th, the Algarve Regional Health Administration (ARS) delivered three electric vehicles to ACeS home support teams in Palliative Care and one all-terrain vehicle, awarded by Missão Sorriso, to the project Diabetes in the Serra de Silves of UCC Rio Arade.
The three electric vehicles were delivered under the 1st Phase of the Support Program for Electric Mobility in Public Administration – ECO.Mob. for the three Palliative Care Community Support Teams of the Health Center Clusters (ACeS) in the region.
The three new electric vehicles will be assigned to the ACeS teams in Lagoa (ACeS Barlavento), São Brás de Alportel (ACeS Central) and Tavira (ACeS Sotavento).
This will make it possible to reinforce proximity care and improve working conditions and mobility for health professionals.
ARS Algarve adds that, in partnership with the Fundo Ambiental, it will provide and install the respective quick recharging points in each of the locations where the vehicles will be based.
During the ceremony, at the Regional Public Health Laboratory Dr. Laura Ayres, located in Parque das Cidades, a new all-terrain vehicle was also handed over to the Rio Arade de Silves Community Care Unit (UCC) team, acquired. with the award given to the project «Diabetes na Serra de Silves», by Missão Sorriso, as one of the winning projects in the 2016 edition.
This community intervention project aims to improve accessibility to healthcare and surveillance among the elderly population, through consultations carried out by a team consisting of a doctor and nurse at home for elderly users and residents of the Silves mountains.
In the opinion of Paulo Morgado, president of ARS Algarve, this new vehicle represents an asset for the reinforcement of the proximity support provided by UCC Rio Arade.
«The Serra da Silves is an area with a very dispersed, aging population, with many chronic diseases, and this new all-terrain vehicle has the right characteristics to cover the difficult paths of the mountain, which will provide good working conditions for the our professionals, who make an effort on a daily basis to be closer to people», he stressed.
Paulo Morgado added that this is yet another example of “bringing the NHS closer to the people, with more and better capacity to respond to the needs of citizens”.
The delivery of the vehicles brought together the Executive Boards, the Clinical and Health Councils of ACeS, the regional coordinator of Palliative Care in the Algarve, as well as the various elements of the teams.
Paulo Morgado, chairman of the Board of Directors of ARS Algarve, accompanied by members Josélia Gonçalves and Tiago Botelho, highlighted that «delivering the vehicles to these teams is a way of signaling the importance we give to Palliative Care and to the excellent work done by all of them professionals that make up these teams».
He also highlighted that, with the investment in these «modern vehicles, with the highest technology, in terms of environmental sustainability, the three Palliative Care teams are endowed with the same means in terms of unit and capacity to travel to all municipalities in the respective ACeS to which they belong, something that, until now, was not properly operationalized. In other words, regardless of the headquarters where the teams are located, what is intended is that, from now on, these teams provide care in all municipalities in the region».
The Algarve Regional Health Administration was one of the public entities benefiting from the 1st Phase of the Program to Support Electric Mobility in Public Administration – ECO.Mob. which received in April three electric vehicles of the “LP Inferior – Elétrico (AOV)” typology.
With the application to this program that encourages the acquisition of electric vehicles in the Public Administration and is included in the Program for Sustainable Mobility in Public Administration 2015-2020 – ECO.mob., ARS Algarve intends to «contribute to promoting decarbonization and improving environmental performance and at the same time renewing your car parc'.
During the session, professionals from the Community Support Teams in Palliative Care of Health Center Clusters (ACeS) in the region also had the opportunity to learn about how these electric vehicles work, through a presentation made by the project managers of the ARS Algarve's Purchasing and Logistics Unit and Facilities and Equipment Office.
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