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The heads of the emergency team of the Póvoa de Varzim Hospital Center / Vila do Conde, on Friday, the dismissal for “serious lack of medical human resources” in this service, advanced today in the Independent Union of Physicians (SIM).
In a statement, the union specified that physicians should issue a letter of resignation to the chairman of the board of directors and to the clinical director, which was signed by all team leaders, with the exception of the emergency service director, who also performs the duties of team leader.
“The collective dismissal is motivated by the serious lack of human resources in the emergency room of that hospital, which no longer allows us to guarantee safety and security for patients”, he said.
As an example headline, SIM revealed that on the nights of December 31, 2021 and January 1, 2022 instead of five doctors there will be only two doctors.
The care that was provided by two internal medicine doctors and three general practitioners now has to be provided by only two internal medicine doctors, he stressed.
“This includes not only assisting patients screened with red and orange, performing tasks inherent to the team leader and carrying out ignored patients, but also assisting all patients in the medical area screened with green or yellow and support to the area dedicated to sick patients with covid-19 or suspected covid-19”, the union said.
To this, added the YES, on those two nights there will be no gynecology/obstetricians in the emergency room.
This situation is “extremely serious” because pregnant women and mothers from all over the country go to the hospital, he stressed, noting that there is no warning to pregnant women that the obstetrics emergency is closed on those nights.
The Independent Trade Union of Physicians has already scheduled a meeting with the Board of Directors, at its request, to address this issue.