(Updated) Beja: Twelve Hospital Service officers threaten to resign. CA Response.
Twelve Service Chiefs of Hospital José Joaquim Fernandes, in Beja, threaten to resign face “the absolute need to meet the needs of the population assistance ".
"Why can not we, not want, remain indifferent ", is the title of a public manifesto twelve directors of various departments of the Hospital José Joaquim Fernandes, in Beja, They will deliver today to the Minister of Health, Adalberto Campos Fernandes.
In the document the signatories "express their concern for the situation of absolute need to meet the needs of the population assistance" in which the Alentejo Local Health Unit (ULSBA) is responsable.
Ana Matos Pires, Chief of Psychiatry Service, first signatory of the manifest, leaves the particular alert "for the imminent collapse risk of Pediatric Emergency and Obstetrics and the serious difficulties because they are going Anesthesiology, Radiology, General surgery and even Orthopedics ", said.
Failure to tender for newly experts from 2017 and the difficulties to "keep new clinical in the region", They are for medical "problems that urge to discuss and attempt to resolve", concluded.
Arguing that "there are no easy solutions", Ana Matos Pires justify "interiority and disabled access are additional difficulties", adding that "without a broad discussion and without realistic and concrete solutions, the problems will not be overcome "materialized.
The signatory of the document, manifest "availability" to together with the Board of Directors of ULSBA, ARS Alentejo, Ministry of Health and Local Authorities "move forward with a wider forum of discussion", as a way to analyze all the existing problems.
If there are no answers, the signatories are ready to presents the resignation of positions, Ana Matos Pires justifying that "our places are always on hand, because working in conditions of absolute insecurity, It is not good and not our solution ", finished.
Through the Office of Public Affairs of ULSBA, the Lidador News (LN) requested a response from the Board of Directors should be known during the day.
A spokesman for the medical, Ana Matos Pires, is the doctor who last week became involved in the controversy of an alleged request of the Beja Court to “a dead were subjected to a forensic psychiatric expertise”, situation that the head of the Psychiatric Service brought the public a comet in your facebook page.
PUBLIC MANIFESTO
"Why can not we, not want, remain indifferent " – A public manifesto
He spent the year and has ended in January, difficulties persist.
The undersigned, directors of various departments of Hospital José Joaquim Fernandes, in Beja, express their concern for the situation of absolute shortage of doctors to meet the welfare needs of the population for which the Local Health Unit of the Lower Alentejo (ULSBA) is responsable.
In particular warn against the imminent risk of collapse in the Pediatric Emergency and Obstetrics and the serious difficulties that are going Anesthesiology, Radiology, General Surgery and even Orthopedics.
Failure of tendering for new specialists 2017 and the increased difficulties to attract and retain new clinical problems in this area are that it is urgent to discuss and try to solve.
There are no easy solutions, well we know, interiority and disabled access are additional difficulties, but without a broad discussion and without realistic and concrete suggestions the problems will not be overcome.
We express our readiness to, together with the Board of Directors of ULSBA, a ARS Alentejo, the Ministry of Health and Local Government, move forward with this extended discussion forum. That we give public knowledge simultaneously with the dispatch of this text to the institutions mentioned.
Beja, 5 of fevreiro of 2018
Ana Matos Pires
Ana Teresa Gaspar
aniceta Cavaco
Claudia North
Isabel Santos
Joseph Vaz
Luisa Elisiário
Luiz Palma
Mª José in January
Pedro Costa
Rogério Mestre
Rosa Bento
Response of the Board of Directors of ULSBA (Conceição Margalha, chairman of the board and clinical director).
Given the public manifesto signed by twelve Directors of Hospital Service José Joaquim Fernandes, the Board of Directors of the Local Unit of the Lower Alentejo Health, EPE leaves that express, recognizing the difficulties in various medical specialties, and constraints in attracting and establishing new medical professionals in the region, all makes, and will continue to do, to find concrete solutions to the problems already known.
There is a constant concern, combined with a strong sense of mission, with regard to the provision of care quality care to the population of the catchment area of ULSBA. And this concern higher, It is reflected in the certainty that we will always be available for, all together, discuss issues, define strategies and find the best solutions.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
