Alentejo: medical leave 7 Empty seats in contest.
They remained unfilled 7 the 30 vacancies for family doctors in the various regions of the country, whose contest took place at the beginning of last week. Alentejo were open 7 vacancies, less than half of the positions were assigned doctor.
According to the Central Administration of the Health System (ACSS) cited by Jornal de NotÃcias (JN), North filled 100% places and Alentejo 42%. As 117 Applications received in the contest only completed 87 the 110 vacancies, including all located in the North (28), 82% no Center (18 of 22), 80% no Algarve (4 of 5), 74% Lisbon and Tagus Valley (32 of 43) and 42% Alentejo (5 of 7).
According to data from ACSS, Alentejo, where the percentage of lack of interest of professionals was higher, the 23 thousand patients without physician may turn out to be just 22 thousand.
Doctors who competed finished boarding in April last year and expected, since then, that opened the contest.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
