Tens of people who had been admitted to hospitals in the Algarve «for a long time», because they had nowhere else to go, were recently referred to institutions suited to their needs, revealed Ana Castro, President of the Board of Directors of the Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Algarve , in an interview with Sul Informação.
The new administration of the Algarve hospitals created «a team with Social Security that has been working beautifully» and, until mid-November, it was possible to «remove around 40 people from the hospital who were here with social cases that had dragged on for a long time» .
At issue are people who were admitted to the Hospital, not because their health condition required it, but because they have nowhere else to go - despite the fact that, in many, they have families, who just do not want or can have them in their homes.
"Right now, all these people are integrated in units of the long-term care network, homes or therapeutic communities, according to the typology that each one needs", said Ana Castro, in an interview with our newspaper, the first since she took office as chairman of the Board of CHUA, where he spoke of various topics, such as the chronic difficulty of the Algarve in attract doctors, but also from what made her accept to manage the Algarve hospitals and what was done to face the 2nd wave of Covid-19.
“We are talking about non-Covid patients, who have been in the hospital for a long time, and we have been organizing, with a great deal of help from Social Security. The articulation between entities has been very good, namely with Social Security, which has worked beautifully», he said.
With the resolution of these social cases, the hospital center was able to “free beds. Now, yes, we are going to be able to hospitalize those patients who, in the past, had to stay there in the corridor, and now have a decent place to go».
This week, CHUA revealed that the vast majority of internment situations for social reasons have been resolved.
«From March until the beginning of December, the hospital units of Faro and Portimão recorded a decrease of 80 percent, which translates into a significant reduction in the number of cases and, consequently, in the number of hospitalization days in relation to the postponement of discharge for exclusively social reasons," he stated.
Ana Castro also highlighted the fact that, on the first Fridays of November, the urgency “has no one in the corridors. In a pandemic, having a clean emergency, I think it's something that everyone here at CHUA should be proud of, but also the people of Algarve, because it's a sign that they are resorting to the services that they should use and that they don't come to the emergency room unnecessarily." , he said.
However, he stressed, this did not reach social media or newspapers, as it quickly happens when something is not right.
“I think people have some difficulty recognizing what others do well. And there is a lot here that is done very well. People like to talk, very quickly, in case it went wrong. And I feel sorry for that. Sometimes I think professionals feel a little bit wronged because the least bad thing gets a lot of news. Good things don't always work», he vented.
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