President of IPO Lisboa effort by professionals, but remember that there is a limit – Atualidade
“Actually, we have a limit, which is professional dedication (…). The way it is done, fatigue is accumulating and I have no guarantees that we will continue to be able to have the levels of supply”, underlined João Oliveira.
According to the data that Lusa had access to, between January and May of the year, a total of 40,660 patients were monitored at the Lisbon IPO (40,008 in the same period of 2021). In 2021, there was a 2.93% increase in patients under follow-up (from 56,781 in 2020 to 58,446 last year).
Between January and May of this year, the Lisbon IPO carried out a total of 13,185 medical consultations (130,788 in the same period last year), 3,185 surgeries (3,001 in the same period in 2021). The number of both patients and sessions at the Day Hospital undergoing chemotherapy and therapy also grew in the first five months of the year compared to the same period in the previous year.
Regarding radiotherapy machines (accelerators, the Lisbon IPO has seven), João Oliveira said that the equipment is not underutilized, but recalled that it is “at the mercy of a huge effort from doctors and physicists, technicians, all the staff” who performs a service of the kind”
“It is a sector in which, due to the fact that we are not able to hire the doctors and physicists that we need to have here, we end up being, in this case, a public institution like the IPO, at a huge expense of contracting services with private institutions that ended up employing our professionals explains.
– “The relationship with the dictatorship may be lacking: we do not have to pay here in relation to ourselves, if we work here for the private sector and the sector that buys from individuals. with all the inconvenience to patients, who have strategic difficulties about how to control control, just because we don’t pay them enough here”.
In the budget activities plan and for 2022, the Lisbon IPO should have a total of 2,421 professionals (all groups), however the tutelage considers a total of 2,303 jobs.
On the 31st, the Lisbon IPO had a total of 2,008 professionals.
In the whole of last year, 272 professionals left the Lisbon IPO – including 69 professional assistants, 47 technical assistants, 19 doctors, 25 interns and 73 nurses. A total of 251 entered.