The Union of Portuguese Mercies (UMP) As of today, he assumes the management of the São Paulo Hospital, Serpa, reopening the emergency service (HIS) and inaugurating the medical-surgical unit (UMC) for the entire population.
According to a statement sent this Tuesday morning to Lidador Notícias (LN), the UMP justifies that “gradually, and after adequately training the hospital unit in technical and human resources terms, will hand over management to the mercy of Serpa”, adding that “the US is available from 8 to 24 hours and UMC, which was built from scratch, provides for the carrying out of 2.500 a 3.000 surgeries year”, conclude.
This unit involves an investment of 3,7 million euros and replaces the operating room at the São Paulo Hospital, disabled in 2005.
The document also states that the UMP “intends to work so that this hospital unit can have professional management” with the aim of acquiring skills “with health care benefits for the community”, served by the hospital.
The Hospital of São Paulo, now has Graça Coelho as clinical director and “brings together leading professionals”, the União das Misericórdias Portuguesas assures that it intends to “provide a quality health service worthy of the population’s trust”, ensuring that it will “make available” diverse services, namely continued care, specialty consultations, exams with complementary diagnostic means and will have the capacity for outpatient and inpatient surgeries.
At the beginning of last December, the provider of the Santa Casa Misericórdia de Serpa (SCME), Isabel Estevens, revealed that the UMP would integrate the administration of the Hospital de S. Paulo, that city Alentejo, under “a partnership management agreement” between the two entities. The person in charge said that the agreement provided that “UMP can manage the hospital, within the scope of the cooperation agreement with the State”. Which should end at the end of 2024, principle of 2025.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
