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Faced with the exhaustion of hospital units in Portugal, our country is already considering a request for international aid. THE Austria has already announced that it will receive patients in intensive care, It’s in Germany will be ending sending teams and health professionals to Portugal.
Faced with this scenario, the vice president of the Portuguese Society for Prehospital Emergencies, Nélson Batista, understands that this availability of help is “welcome”, although he says it is necessary to understand how this support arose.
Regarding the integration of foreign professionals into the National Health Service, the official said that a team of evaluators was already in Portugal, adding that they will be specialists in disaster medicine, who come to “organize the response.”
It is clear that there is a lack of organization here that must be corrected. I hope this is fixed “, he stated.
Asked if this measure is a reaction, Nélson Batista regrets that an adequate response is not foreseen.
One of the points he criticizes is the management carried out by the INEM Urgent Patient Orientation Center, which, in the official’s opinion, is causing chaos in Portuguese hospitals, causing overcrowding of ambulances with patients awaiting care.
These sorting centers don’t make sense. The goal is that the ambulances do not reach the hospitals. It is not coming and going with the patient behind “, he pointed.
For Nélson Batista, one of the solutions that must be found is greater coordination and integration of the entire hospital network.
The official says that this suggestion has been proposed “for years”, but that “the problem is that the guardianship [Ministério da Saúde] I can not hear “.
What is missing are clear guidelines. We need planning, organization. We are in a catastrophe, a public health emergency “He explained.
In a statement, the Portuguese Society for Prehospital Emergencies this Sunday welcomed the possibility of Germany sending health professionals and medical teams to Portugal, but stressed the importance of “creating pre-hospital emergency courses.”
It is a pleasure to verify the referred support to Portugal “, mentions in a statement that highlights, however, the “urgent need to create courses in the field of prehospital medical emergency”, such as prehospital emergency medical technicians of levels 1 and 2, and the higher level of paramedics .
The note praises that these operations “have, in other European countries, operated efficiently, providing differentiated emergency medical care, mitigating the overload of hospitals, from the beginning of health professionals.”
The Portuguese Society of Prehospital Emergencies considers that these training courses would eliminate “the lack of the Integrated System of Medical Emergencies” in the field of training, which it describes as “inappropriate and even anachronistic”.
These trainings would allow “with a career based on paramedicine implemented in Portugal, to free doctors and nurses from prehospital medical emergencies, to hospital units, which obviously, and as shown, lack these highly differentiated professionals”, defended the organization. .
In this sense, the Portuguese Society for Prehospital Emergencies urges the Directorate General of Health to create a working group to develop these courses, showing “their total interest” in integrating them.
Portugal signed up this Sunday 303 deaths related to covid-19 and 9,498 cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection, according to the General Directorate of Health.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Portugal has registered 12,482 deaths associated with covid-19 and 720,516 cases of infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, with 181,623 active cases.
