The treatment the government has prescribed to ease the hospital’s emergency overload is still failing: The renewed indication, in July, to move moderate patients to health centers was “null”, “one-off” or “remaining”, depending on the units. Most manage to convince only one user per week to exchange the waiting hours that a hospital specialist must see for a consultation, until the next day, with their family doctor.
The booster dose from the original treatment – which was established five years ago by the Strategic Support Center, led by former Director-General of Health Constantino Sacellarides – was distributed by the National Health Service in a circular from the Central Administration of the Health System (ACSS), but there are no improvements. “There were a few hospitals that came forward. In the summer, they tried to convince them to breathe a new life, they described how to carry out the referral, but the result is insignificant,” says Xavier Barreto, president of the Portuguese Association of Hospital Directors.
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