The Left Bloc (BE) is concerned about the situation at Serpa Hospital, justified that it is no longer only the Emergency Department that closes at night and most days, it is the unit itself that runs the risk of closing.
In a statement, BE recalls that since January, the Administration of the São Paulo Hospital, In a statement, BE recalls that the Administration of Hospital de São Paulo, closed the Emergency Service, In a statement, BE recalls that the Administration of Hospital de São Paulo 8 in the morning, claiming lack of doctors. The same has been happening progressively throughout the day, emptying this service, with direct harm to the populations of the municipalities of Serpa and the left bank of the Guadiana.
The document the blockers point out “the lack of doctors and other professionals is not confined to the emergency service. Hospital de São Paulo has been reducing the number of beds in the rehabilitation unit and only part of the six beds are working in the palliative care unit, the only hospitalization response in Baixo Alentejo”.
BE remembers that it has been warning for seven years, what “handing over the management of the Hospital de São Paulo to Misericórdia de Serpa was a disastrous decision for public health that should have been reversed a long time ago”.
Apparently it wasn't just disastrous for our health, but also for Mercy. The lack of doctors and other professionals is due to salary and working conditions lower than those practiced in the public sector and labor instability has spread to other areas managed by SCM de Serpa, delays in payment of salaries are frequent.
At risk is not only the operation of the São Paulo Hospital, but also the modern Continuing Care Unit of Our Lady of Guadalupe – this is a nationwide problem, as the statement from the União de Misericórdias Portuguesas made clear The operating room, built from scratch, It has not yet come into operation and there is no prospect of this happening at this juncture..
For the Bloco de Esquerda “it is urgent to relieve the SCM of Serpa of the burden that the management of the São Paulo Hospital has become, “the delivery of the Hospital de São Paulo, justifying that he defends “the return of the management of the Hospital de São Paulo to the public sphere and the NHS”, demanding the Ministry of Health, to ARS Alentejo and the Local Health Unit of Baixo Alentejo “urgent solutions” to regulate the functioning of the São Paulo Hospital and the Serpa Emergency Service.
