Beja: no obstetrician hospital Emergency Department of Obstetrics / Gynecology.
The communication was known three hours after being in force. no obstetrician hospital ER. Pregnant women will be sent to Évora. In January found a similar situation.
The lack of doctors in the Emergency Service of Gynecology / Obstetrics Hospital José Joaquim Fernandes, in Beja, will make for 24 hours, the period between 08,00 Today's hours and 08,00 hours of tomorrow, pregnant women have to resort, by own means, to the Holy Spirit Hospital services, Evora, having to go over 80 kilometers without any medical assistance.
The case was known to today 11,00 hours, three hours after the situation has been in force, in a statement the District Command Relief Operations (CDOS) Beja, labeled as "Urgent", that realized the information conveyed by the Board of Directors of the Local Health Unit of the Lower Alentejo (ULSBA), chaired by Conceição Margalha.
At issue is the fact that ULSBA failing to appoint a second physician OB / GYN for SU, which runs on the 5th floor of the Hospital José Joaquim Fernandes, which leads to the impracticability of care of pregnant women.
Has learned the Lidador News (LN), Emergency in enrollment of pregnant women will not be accepted, or any pre-ups will be made (screening) to determine their state of pregnancy, It is communicated to you or family, you have to resort by their means to another hospital and the closer is the Evora Hospital, the others are the Setubal and Faro.
This is the second time that this situation occurs in the Hospital José Joaquim Fernandes, since the end-of-week 5 and 6 January was the same situation, it was "remedied intermittently" for a few hours with the doctor who entered service, for the care of patients admitted to the Obstetrics Service, which runs on the 5th floor Beja Hospital.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
