The Algarve University Hospital Center (CHUA) has expanded its inpatient capacity to treat non-Covid patients and increased the response in the Intensive Care area by opening 56 new beds in the cities of Faro and Lakes.
The new beds will be opened 'in extensions of ward and outpatient surgery outside their hospitals in the cities of Faro and Lagos intended exclusively for the internment and treatment of non-Covid patients».
This reinforcement of the response will be installed in «units of previous hospital use, of which 28 will be located in the former Santa Maria hospital, in Faro (Lusíadas Saúde group) and 28 in premises attached to the Hospital de São Gonçalo, in Lagos (Grupo Hospital Particular do Algarve)», revealed CHUA, in a press release.
In the case of Hospital de São Gonçalo de Lagos, in addition to inpatient services, the operating room will also be transferred to the NHS for outpatient surgery for patients who are not infected with the new coronavirus, revealed the HPA group.
"This measure of expansion of the hospital internship capacity, translated by the opening of wards and accompanied by the clinical team of CHUA itself, aims to continue to guarantee the response in the other specialties and simultaneously free vacancies in the reference hospitals to increase the response of Intensive Care and for more differentiated patients», highlighted, in turn, the CHUA.
According to Paulo Neves, member of the Board of Directors of the Algarve hospitals, this measure aims to "guarantee all the conditions so that, even in a pandemic phase, we can treat non-Covid patients in different, clinically safe circuits and outside hospitals, with the advantage of be accompanied by the same medical, nursing and technical teams of CHUA, who already know the clinical history of the patients and, in this way, can enhance their faster recovery».
Basically, it is an “alternative management measure with clear advantages and expected health gains for our patients”.
HPA Saúde recalled that in April “it had made this unit available exclusively for monitoring Covid patients, in an effort to collaborate with the NHS. In this very complicated moment that we are going through, we remain fully available to collaborate, as we have been doing since March 2020, as we believe that only joining efforts from all sectors will it be possible to overcome this terrible phase».
"The CHUA will thus be able to count on 26 inpatient beds and two operating rooms to alleviate the surgical waiting lists of different specialties," says the private health group.
The Board of Directors of CHUA thanked “the involvement and support of the municipalities of the cities of Faro and Lagos, who for a week have been helping us to put this initiative into operation that CHUA proposed to them”, as well as “ARS Algarve, which moderated the agreements with the private owners that we praise under the state of emergency legislation in force, as well as the public health authority'.
This action, «together with the previous option of opening 100 beds in the CHUA Arena with the Municipality of Portimão, intends to maximize the differentiated response options and greatly expand the internment capacities in the global response to the pandemic, while trying to recover the health care we serve to the Algarve population, a purpose defended since the inauguration of this team led by Dr. Ana Castro», concluded the CHUA.
Note: Updated at 15:00 pm with information sent by the HPA Saúde group
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