The Hospital of Faro has a new Intensive Care Unit, with 14 more beds, a new Stroke Center and an Orthoprosthesis Laboratory that has already delivered a first prosthesis to a child. These new facilities, inaugurated this Friday, November 4th, are an «added value for all patients in the region».
The three openings were attended by Manuel Pizarro, Minister of Health who was visit to the Algarve.
The new Intensive Care Unit has 14 beds (a number that can grow) and is where the controversial fans purchased by the Intermunicipal Community of the Algarve for the Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Algarve are working.
This new unit also shares an area for patients normally referred to the Cerebral Vascular Accident Center (AVC). In fact, of the 14 beds, six are more intended for patients who have suffered a stroke.
Therefore, the creation of a stroke center, in an area close to the Intermediate Care, also serves to improve care for stroke patients who need to increase the level of care.
Moreover, with the new Center, the Hospital de Faro will have new advances in treatments such as Thrombectomy, Vascular Intervention, Angiography and the articulation with Intensive Rehabilitation provided at CHUA, also at the Centro de Medicina Física e Reabilitação do Sul, in São Brás de Alportel, and in Lagos.
Speaking to journalists, Horácio Guerreiro, clinical director of CHUA, said that one of the goals is also to start doing “heart surgery in three to six months”.
“We have a highly differentiated team that wants to come here to work and will see the installations in the short term. We are sending around 150 heart patients to Lisbon, which is a large number”, she explained.
"It is important to have intensive care and flexibility in the provision of intensive care, because many of these patients, from cardiac or pulmonary surgery, need intensive care", he added.
The other facility that was inaugurated yesterday, by the Minister of Health, is an Orthoprosthesis Laboratory that will make it possible to produce, at CHUA, both prostheses and orthoses.
According to Horácio Guerreiro, the waiting list for this equipment is «big».
“People sometimes wait for an orthosis, for a wheelchair, and this is a very important point because we are manufacturing products for each person that we will then reuse for others. It's a faster response”, he framed.
The inauguration of this Laboratory had a special moment: the Minister of Health gave a child the first orthosis, for the feet, made in this new valence.
“I would like to give a very special note to this new health product service and orthoprosthesis laboratory. It is a sign of something that cannot fail to be present in a health service, which is the concern and affection towards people who need differentiated support products adapted to each need, and at the same time it is a modern vision of matter, based on the use of new technologies and the logic of the circular economy", said Manuel Pizarro.
For the rest, for Ana Vargues Gomes, chairman of the Board of Directors of CHUA, these new skills are “an asset for all patients in the region”.
«We are always short of people, but we have the facilities for now and I think that will help us», he concluded.
Photos: Pedro Lemos | Sul Informação and CHUA
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