COVID-19: Twelve firefighters from Beja and Mértola with negative results.
Tests carried out on twelve firefighters from the Beja and Mértola corporations were negative. The operational tests of Aljustrel and Serpa are missing, that were made today.
Twelve operational, eleven wage earners and a volunteer, of Beja and Mértola Fire Departments had negative tests to covid-19, according to information transmitted this morning by health authorities, at the controls of the respective corporations.
With the “sword on my head” waiting for the notifications were nine elements from Beja and three from Mértola, among which the second commander, which according to the found Lidador News (LN) they will return to service tomorrow.
The results of the tests of four more operational operators are still unknown., all wage earners, of the Fire Departments of Aljustrel and Serpa, that were subjected to these tests this morning.
Fire source told LN that “the results lift a tremendous negative charge from these corporations. If a positive case emerged, it could mean closing the barracks ”, summed up our source.
The case was triggered at the end of last week when a doctor, that among other functions, provides service in the emergency medical vehicle and resuscitation (VMER) Hospital José Joaquim Fernandes, in Beja, tested positive for covid-19 tests. The clinician also provides services at the Cascais Hospital and the INEM helicopter stationed in Évora.
In addition to the 16 firefighters, three nurses are also placed in isolation, two from Beja Hospital that work at VMER and one from a home in Serpa and elements from the helicopter of the National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM) based in Évora, whose number has not been released.
JN, the INEM Press Office justified that although VMER is from the Institute “the doctor was hired by the Baixo Alentejo Local Health Unit (ULSBA)", adding that in relation to the INEM helicopter, the clinician's last service was the 3 August “and all the people who had contact with him were identified, are at home and being monitored by INEM, being asymptomatic ”, remataram.
For its part, ULSBA, revealed that he had no statement to make “since all protocols were triggered by the competent authorities that detected the case, as well as the respective measures foreseen for this purpose ”, concluded.
The tests on the four firefighters from Aljustrel and Serpa should be known tomorrow, the situations of the three nurses and members of the INEM helicopter team based in Évora are unknown, as well as the doctor because he is a task worker in all services.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
