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Collaborators of various professional groups of the Centro Hospitalar do Tâmega e Sousa, in Penafiel, are infected with the coronavirus, the administration of that unit reported on Tuesday, refusing to question the operation of the hospital.
“As in all hospitals, there are infected professionals, from all professional groups. Until now, the operation of the hospital is not at stake,” reads a clarification sent to Lusa.
A CHTS employee heard by Lusa on Tuesday denounced a situation of “great difficulty” in the Peñafiel hospital, including in the emergency room, where patients wait hours to be treated, due to lack of professionals.
“The situation is chaotic, with the corridors full of patients”, He said.
When clarifying the CHTS, which does not answer Lusa’s question about the number of infected professionals in that hospital unit, it is noted that the difficulties are caused by the absence of several employees.
This, he adds, “either because they are contaminated or because they are in quarantine, due to some risky contacts with other contaminated people.”
On the subject of urgency, it is said that “the great cause of difficulty in managing the service today is related to the huge inappropriate influx of users just for the purpose of testing.”
According to CHTS, “this participation has even exceeded usual peak peaks in flu time“.
The clarification sent to Lusa highlights a call to the population to “only go to the emergency room for serious reasons.”
“The tests must be carried out by contacting the SNS 24 line or the family doctors. Urgent visits at this time, for inappropriate reasons, are strongly discouraged, among other things because it causes excessive crowding, which increases unwanted contamination, “he concludes. the CHTS.
