Beja: Order warns of shortage of doctors in the hospital.
The President of the Regional Council of the South of the Medical, Alexandre Valentine Lawrence, warned yesterday to the lack of clinical hospital in Beja, demanding an “special attention” the remedy enabling the recruitment of these professionals.
“What happens in Beja is very simple. It happens in a remote region, an area of the countryside, a shortage of doctors of various specialties that are common to all hospitals in the southern area, but what, the Beja Hospital positioning, It is more serious”, Valentine said Alexandre Lourenço.
The president of the Southern Regional Council (CRS) of the Medical Association spoke to the Lusa agency in the manifesto signed by sequence 12 Service directors of Hospital José Joaquim Fernandes, in Beja, warns that for “imminent risk of collapse in the emergency room of Pediatrics and Obstetrics” and the “absolute shortage of doctors” in the unit.
Alexandre Valentine Lawrence, who was last night in this city Alentejo, at the reception to internal sub-region of Beja, He told Lusa have been aware that, this hospital, “in December, They not managed to make the emergency scales of Pediatrics and Obstetrics” and that there “severe shortages in anesthesia and surgical specialties”.
“And this lack of doctors, who tried to solve in December, remains unresolved in these first two months” of the year, He stressed.
For responsible, these problems are due to the fact that, last year, nationally, “there was no competition for newly experts” hospital, which prevented their hiring.
And, highlighted, “some hospitals” they are “I find it difficult to make individual employment contracts with doctors”.
“this hospital, as in other, services identify colleagues willing to work permanently in these places, proposals are, oftentimes, made by government, but, after, the top level, normally [the Ministry] Finance, contracts are not allowed”, He criticized.
Companies to provide services, indicated, also “They have been pushed, We last months, for less time payments”, making it harder “finding quality physicians to the scales”.
“All hospitals need contracts”, but “We need to take special precautions for Beja”, as in other hospitals “far removed from big cities”, He defended.
“As the latest technological and scientific resource for local communities, they have to be on the agenda for those who make the hiring of hospital medical resources”, held.
The manifesto of Beja Hospital clinical, which is part of the Local Health Unit of the Lower Alentejo (ULSBA), It was released today and is signed by the directors of Psychiatric Services, physiatry, Pediatrics, Hematology, Pedopsiquiatria, Medicine, Anesthesia, Orthopedics, Obstetrics, Oncology Day Hospital, Emergency and Clinical Pathology.
