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The private ones made themselves available, Marta Temido rejected the aid because the SNS could solve it. But that was the first wave. And now that the covid figures are breaking daily records in Portugal, with particular incidence and severity in the North, it is the very guardianship to seek help from the private sector.
This week we learned about the agreement signed between ARS Norte and José de Mello Saúde (CUF Group) in the sense that the CUF unit in Porto receives covid patients from the SNS, now it is the Lusíadas Saúde Group that must be called to help – this time with regard to medical care resulting from all the conditions that public hospitals cannot provide given the escalation of covid cases.
Since November 3, Lusíadas Saúde has been acting in the scope of an office of the Ministry of Health, which indicates that the SNS units must see suspended “non-urgent care activity that, due to its nature or clinical priority, is not life threatening For the users “. This contingency circumstance implies an even more pronounced growth in waiting lists, which are currently in the order of 1 million consultations, 100,000 exams and more than 60,000 surgeries ”, in which the private group will now intervene.
“Given the current public health context and during the meetings it has held with the Ministry of Health during the last week, Lusíadas is readjusting the care profile of its units in the north of the country – Lusíadas Porto Hospital and Lusíadas Hospital. Braga – contribute even more actively in the fight against the covid-19 pandemic and the urgent need to act in the consultations, diagnosis and treatment of other non-covid-19 pathologies”, Explains the group in a statement sent to DN / Dinheiro Vivo.
The recourse to individuals, which the guardianship initially rejected, is now the solution. A solution, moreover, that has been demanded by a wide range of Portuguese society, including former Health ministers such as Adalberto Campos Fernandes (head of the portfolio in the first government of António Costa) and the mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira. , who even this afternoon defended that we should not look at a “National Health Service but at the National Health System that we have.”
Also since Tuesday (3), the Lusíadas group has been in direct contact with ARS Norte, having “started the process of adhering to the agreement that, in addition to doubling the installed capacity of the SIGIC – already informed and in operation -“, will allow the admission of patients with medical conditions in the acute phase, “while the” capacity negotiations “with a reference hospital in Porto are still” finalizing “to further accelerate the execution of urgent surgeries on the waiting list,” a total of 25 medical and surgical beds “.
Pressured by numbers and public opinion, the tutela ended up meeting with the private ones for days, but the confusion was even greater, with ARS Lisboa saying that the groups were not available to help and the private ones to immediately deny that statement. . Not a week later, and with the peak of cases in the North, the government finally moves towards the private sector.
“Since the end of the internment period, Lusíadas Saúde has been active in supporting Portuguese citizens by contributing to their daily activities, in its 13 hospitals and clinics, to reduce the manifest needs in the field of care and surgical activity of their traditional clients and the performance of more than 1500 surgeries under the Integrated Management System for Surgery Registered (SIGIC) of the National Health Service ”, Lusíadas now tells in the statement sent to DN / Dinheiro Vivo.
The Lusíadas Porto Hospital is also studying the possibility of adjusting its care profile in order to contribute to the hospitalization of patients with covid-19, pending “the update of the respective protocol by the Ministry of Health, which should be based on experience associated with the average length of stay in nursing and intensive care and the respective effective costs borne by NHS hospitals “.
Thus the argument of economic logic and lucrative objectives collapses, which has been widely used to reject the intervention of the private sector, defending rather the advance towards civil requisitions. This idea was recently rejected outright by Private Hospitalization as a “nonsensical scenario in a context of national emergency and in view of the inability of the SNS to respond, in which individuals will help when necessary,” as Óscar Gaspar explained to Expresso ( APHP).
For its part, Lusíadas Saúde “reiterates its willingness to collaborate with the Ministry of Health in the fight against the pandemic, as well as in reducing the urgent non-covid needs of the Portuguese population.”
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