Emergency Services at Beja Hospital and Castro Verde Health Centers, Moura and Odemira work fully between 24 and 31 of December.
The Executive Directorate of the National Health Service (DE-SNS) informed, that no health unit in the Beja district will be constrained until the next day 31 of December.
Situation in the Beja district
Local unit of the Lower Alentejo Health, EPE – Medical-Surgical Emergency Service
Baixo Alentejo Hospital Unit (Hospital de Beja) – Medical-Surgical Emergency Service – without constraints
Castro Verde Health Center – Basic Emergency Service – without constraints
Moura Health Center – Basic Emergency Service – without constraints.
Local Health Unit of the Alentejo Coast, TERM
Odemira Health Center – Basic Emergency Service – without constraints.
DE-SNS states that “continues to work on the functional and legal preparation of a referenced emergency model”. The organization is working on the second phase of the pilot project “Call ahead, save lives”, implemented in the municipalities of PĂłvoa de Varzim and Vila do Conde.
The results “can be evaluated in the short term, before considering the gradual form of its extension to other local health units”, clarifies the Executive Management of the SNS.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)