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In March, with a pandemic spreading across the world, Portugal began purchasing ventilators to equip intensive care rooms. “Fortunately” the need was not what was expected, since Portugal did not fall apart in terms of hospital service.
According to the latest report of the first state of emergency of the second wave, delivered earlier this month, 1,181 fans arrived in Portugal… but one piece is missing!
Fans: "one type of plug / adapter" is missing
Portugal received 1,181 ventilators, but only 797 were distributed to hospital units. According to the report, the Foreign Ministry says there were 15 flights from Beijing to Lisbon.
At the beginning of November, the Minister of Health, Marta Temido, revealed in Parliament the existence of 253 ventilators that did not work. Now, in response to the "TSF", the guardianship explains that there is still a piece missing that allows the fans to work, "a kind of plug / adapter" that allows connection to the oxygen network.
TSF also questioned the Ministry about the case of the 253 fans that were still not working at the beginning of November, a situation that Marta Temido revealed in Parliament at that time. The office of the Minister of Health guarantees that the missing part has nothing to do with the purchase contracts of fans.
According to the Ministry, it is "a kind of plug / adapter" to connect to the oxygen network, which is purchased separately, as it depends on the type of oxygen network system installed in each hospital.
"As with other equipment for intensive care units," continues the Ministry of Health, "there have also been difficulties in purchasing" these parts "due to the high global demand, as a result of the pandemic."
So far, the Portuguese State has not yet managed to buy all the “necessary parts”, with the distribution of the fans “as the parts are supplied and according to the needs reported by the hospitals and the commission” created to monitor of care. during the pandemic, says TSF.
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