The "screaming shortages of medical personnel" in the Gynecology and Obstetrics Service of the hospital in Faro, during this period of festivities, which could even lead to the «closure of the only differentiated perinatal care unit» in the Algarve, led the mayor of Faro to send an email to the Minister of Health.
In your letter, the Sul Informação had access, the mayor Rogério Bacalhau points out that "just two days before Christmas, critical issues remain" at the Gynecology and Obstetrics Service of the hospital in Faro, which "endanger the tranquility of the communities, in a festive period and also with a predictable greater affluence to hospital services".
the aedile of Faro denounces the “alleged deficiencies of the CHUA-HDF Gynecology and Obstetrics Service, which, as you are well aware, provides differentiated perinatal care, even being the only maternity hospital that has a differentiated neonatal unit in the Algarve and which has an annual average of 2400 births. It also provides differentiated care in the areas of prenatal diagnosis, cervical pathology, senology and oncological gynecology».
One of the problems, underlines the Farense mayor, has to do with the «serious constraint on the Urgency scale for the current festive season», since, instead of the four elements of scale, in several turns there is only one or none.
This is a situation that could mean the “closure of the only differentiated perinatal care unit in this region”.
The mayor also announces his "extreme concern" with the fact that the Gynecology and Obstetrics Service, which has "an aging" and "needy" medical staff, is only able to "guarantee less than 40% of the Emergency Service shifts". not having received "any vacancy" in the competition opened on December 19 by the Ministry of Health.
This is because, adds the mayor of the Algarve capital, in his email to Minister Marta Temido, the hospital staff must be reinforced with «10 hospital assistants».
For this reason, echoing the requests of the doctors of this service, the mayor asks for "urgent rectification or consideration of such a captivation of doctors."
Almost at the end, the social-democratic mayor asks the Minister of Health to create “an emergency device to fill the needs of a service that cannot fail at any time, even less so in this period when the influx of users to health care is predictably superior'.
At the end of his email, Rogério Bacalhau calls for “an urgent and forceful position to be taken” on the matter, by the Ministry under the supervision of Marta Temido.
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