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The doctors are refusing to join the Rapid Intervention Brigades that will provide support to nursing homes affected by the Covid-19 outbreaks.
The news is advanced by the weekly Expresso, this Saturday.
Brigades with 400 professionals will support households affected by outbreaks
The 20 specialists or interns in General and Family Medicine, who must integrate these teams in the 18 districts of the country, speak of a lack of conditions and extra responsibility. The alternative presented by the doctors, according to the operations director of the Portuguese Red Cross -who is preparing these teams-, has been preventive.
Of the 400 people who will make up these teams, who are expected to go out into the field at the end of this month, 275 assistants and assistants have already been hired and 85 nurses and 20 psychologists are being negotiated. So far, according to the weekly, no doctor has been hired.
Even this Wednesday, during a joint hearing between the Minister of Health and the Minister of Labor, Solidarity and Social Security, in Parliament, the Minister of Health said that an audit was determined by the General Inspection of Sanitary Activities (IGAS) . analyze the issue of doctors’ refusal to work in nursing homes.
Households. The 35 active outbreaks in the country, the failures, the uses and the new support line. What the ministers said
In July, the Observer said hospital doctors refused to reinforce the team that would support the Maria Inácia Vogado Perdigão Silva Foundation home in Reguengos de Monsaraz, whose Covid-19 outbreak killed 18 people. The news was not denied for weeks, until the controversy with the Prime Minister broke out.
Reguengos. The history of the confusion by the refusal of the doctors that turned into political war
In August, the president of the União das Misericórdia Portuguesas accused the doctors at the Barreiro health center of refusing to provide assistance to a home.
Doctors refused to go home to Barreiro, accuses União das Misericórdias
