(Update / Last minute) Beja: Emergency Department of Gynecology / Obstetrics no longer closes.


Update: The Emergency Department of Gynecology / Obstetrics Beja Hospital will no longer close to today 18,00 hours. It has gotten a second doctor.

UPDATE: A new statement from Relief Operations District Command (CDOS) Beja, realizes that “the information in the mail below giving closing note of the Emergency Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics (the period between 18 h do dia 14 June and 8 h do dia 15 June), it is outdated, It is the Emergency Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Hospital José Joaquim Fernandes, in full operation during the period mentioned”.

The information of the Local Health Unit of the Lower Alentejo, conveyed by CDOS not clear if the doctor is internal, it was clinical hired to ensure this failure.

A partir das 18,00 hours of today and to the 08,00 Saturday hours, the ER (HIS) Gynecology / Obstetrics Hospital José Joaquim Fernandes, in Beja, back to close, five days after the last occurrence verified on Sunday.

A statement from the District Command of Relief Operations (CDOS) Beja, He realized the information provided by the Board of Directors of Local Health Unit of the Lower Alentejo (ULSBA), that "the users who use that service, They will be transferred ".

There are specified the reasons for termination, if pregnant women will be met in the screening and which hospital where they will be transferred.

The document and discard any responsibility, the CDOS stresses that it is "information provided by the Board of Directors of the Local Health Unit of the Lower Alentejo", ends.

If the other times that the closure happened was for a period of 24 hours, coinciding with the beginning and end of shifts of doctors, this time the beginning of the interruption of the service is to 18,00 hours, when the shift change is at 16,00 and the 24,00 hours.

Since the beginning of the year, This is the fifth time the SU of Gynecology / Obstetrics Hospital José Joaquim Fernandes, in Beja, ends, due to the ULSBA failing to appoint a second medical, pregnant women having to resort, by own means, to the Holy Spirit Hospital services, Evora, crossing over 80 kilometers without any medical assistance. The other hospitals that mothers may use will be Setubal, Faro and Portimão.

This is the fifth time that this situation occurs in the Hospital José Joaquim Fernandes, since during 24 hours, the 08,00 hours 5 January to the 08,00 hours 6 January, and for the same periods of 2 and 3 March, 12 and 13 April and 9 and 10 June.

It should be recalled following the last shutdown, a woman gave birth, cerca the 13,30 Sunday hours, inside an ambulance, Aljustrel in a filling station, due to unavailability of obstetricians in the Emergency Hospital Beja.

The small Zita came into the world with the help of fire Aljustrel, weighing 2,930 pounds. The baby and mother were then conducted to the Beja Hospital, where they left off on Tuesday. This is a case that best reflects the constant constraints caused by the lack of doctors in the Emergency Department of Gynecology / Obstetrics Hospital Beja.

Teixeira Correia

(journalist)


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