The Ministry of Health determined that hospitals of the National Health Service (SNS) may suspend non-urgent care activities during the month of November, according to an order that Lusa had access to.
The order, signed by the Minister of Health, says that NHS hospitals may suspend care activity during the month of November "which, by its nature or clinical priority, does not involve risk of life for users, limitation of their prognosis and/ or limited access to periodic treatments or surveillance'.
"It is the responsibility of the Regional Health Administrations (ARS) to ensure the coordination of the use of the installed capacity in hospitals in their geographic area and, whenever necessary, to take the appropriate measures for inter-regional articulation, without prejudice to the competences assigned to other entities", refers to the document, dated Tuesday.
The order also says that it is the responsibility of the Monitoring Committee of the National Response in Intensive Medicine for Covid-19 (CARNMI), in conjunction with the NHS hospitals, through the respective Intensive Medicine Services, and with the ARS, «to coordinate the management , at national level, of level III and level II Intensive Care Medicine beds, depending on the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic and the hospital capacities existing at any given time».
The National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM) is responsible for «supporting the inter-hospital transport of critically ill patients whose transfer proves necessary», he adds.
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