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“Eruption in the anal region with one year of evolution”, “scabies [sarna] diagnosed two weeks ago and has not improved ”,“ neck pain for months ”,“ burning when urinating ”. These are some of the cases that flow to the emergency room of the São João hospital (Porto), at a time when the situation is still calm but when the number of visits, more than 400, is already close to the daily average . before the pandemic. “This is every day. There are dozens and dozens of patients with complaints of this type and we cannot stop receiving them ”, reports Nelson Pereira, coordinator of this one of the largest emergency services in the country, while observing the computer monitor where the percentage of patients are screened with armbands. green, blue and white (no priority) is increasing. Adding up all the regions of the country, in August non-priority patients in hospital emergency rooms represented 45% of the total, when in 2019, on average, they were around 42%.
