Government provides 10ME for requalification of parts blocks – Portugal
The government will launch a funding line of 10 million euros for the requalification of blocks of parts, works to be carried out this year upon application by hospital units, said the executive director of the National Health Service this Thursday.
The order that will define the rules for receiving funding will be published “in the next few days”, he told the agency. Portuguese Fernando Araújo who leads the Executive Directorate of the National Health Service (DE-SNS). “There are blocks of parts of the SNS that have not been operated on for several decades. The conditions, whether for the humanization of care or for the safety of professionals, have restrictions and constraints and we have to improve”, said the director.
Fernando Araújo announced the investment of 10 million euros, a measure that fits, he said, in the strategy that is being carried out in the country of improving the assistance conditions given to pregnant women in the SNS.
“When we talk about blocks of parts and we look at closures and when we talk about team scales, we must also see that there is a set of strategies and measures that are being outlined to, together, bring more responsiveness to the SNS”, he said. .
Already in the dispatch that will be published, and to which Lusa had access, it is read that this line of financing arises within the scope of the creation of the Commission for Monitoring the Response in Urgency of Gynecology/Obstetrics and Block of Births that was created in June of last year.
The order is accompanied by the Regulation of the Financial Incentive Program for the Qualification of SNS Birth Blocks.
The works to be carried out will have to be carried out during 2023 and the places with worse conditions will be privileged.
“This is an emblematic measure. It is the first specific bet on parts blocks in many years”, considered Fernando Araújo.
Invited to give practical examples that may result from this measure, the doctor tells that he visited the Hospital de Santa Maria, in Lisbon, a “differentiated hospital with excellent professionals”, but which has “a 50 or 60-year-old delivery block”.
“This in no way benefits health care, which has undergone enormous evolution in recent decades. We have to bet seriously on requalifications”, he added.
Another example given was that of Hospital do Algarve which has, considered Fernando Araújo, “very complex conditions”.
But, safeguarding that this line of financing is for the whole country, the director of DE-SNS referred that the applications will have to be developed by the boards of directors of the hospitals and that he already knows that some have “projects done and ideas to improve, but they lacked investment capacity”.
“Here it is [com este investimento] the driving force they need”, he underlined.
Fernando Araújo expects to receive proposals later this month and at the beginning of February, promising “very famous answers”.
The 10 million euros come from the State Budget.
Asked if this amount is enough to meet all needs, Fernando Araújo only said: “For the most urgent needs it is an extremely interesting amount”.
To answer the question about whether this investment in works could be accompanied by investment in human resources, the doctor returned to the example of Hospital de Santa Maria.
“In this hospital we can increase the number of delivery rooms to respond with administration to demand. We are going to give better conditions to the teams because the resources exist and if they have more rooms and more conditions, they will be able to work more adequately. network on demand that we have at the moment”, he explained.
According to Fernando Araújo, the model of candidacies on the initiative of the hospitals themselves is part of the logic of “giving autonomy and responsibility” to the boards of directors.
The improvement of the blocks of pieces also serves to meet the increasingly current needs that future mothers have at the time of having a child.
“In the past, delivery rooms were closer to operating rooms, very cold. Now, more and more, we want humanized rooms with enough space for the father or companion that the pregnant woman has decided will be there the whole time. attend the birth. The requirements are different and we have to accompany them to give quality to those who seek us and compete with what exists in other places from a private point of view”, he concluded.
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