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The president of Hospital Peñafiel guaranteed, this Tuesday, that “health professionals are irreplaceable” in monitoring care, after being accused this afternoon of substituting nurses for video surveillance in the care of patients with covid-19 .
“Or PCA [presidente do conselho de administração] do CHTS [Centro Hospitalar Tâmega e Sousa] It rejects any idea that conditions of safety and quality are at stake in hospital care for patients, ”reads a written message sent to the Lusa agency and signed by Carlos Alberto Silva, who presides over the hospital center of which the Hospital. of Penafiel.
This reaction occurs on the day that the Order of Nurses (OE) accused the CHTS management of putting “professionals without experience in intensive care” to care for patients with covid-19 and of having replaced nurses by video surveillance.
The Lusa agency contacted the CHTS this afternoon and asked for clarification about this complaint, and a hospital source said that today it would not be possible to respond to the request.
Later, in a message addressed to Lusa, Carlos Alberto Silva said that “health professionals are irreplaceable in the monitoring of health care for patients”, highlighting that “they have been guarantors of patient care at one time of great pressure for the hospital. ” , like the one that has been experienced recently and that has been overcome with great commitment and dedication of its human resources ”.
Faced with a new request for additional clarification, the CHTS president referred to Wednesday after a meeting on the subject.
This afternoon, in a statement, the OE described that at the Peñafiel Hospital, one of the CHTS units, “covid-19 patients who need ventilation are admitted to a unit without conditions” and cared for by “professionals without experience in intensive care “. “.
“Video surveillance cameras were installed, which is clearly illegal and, as such, rejected by professionals,” says the Order, saying that “the board of directors [do CHTS], at first he agreed with the nurses, deciding that the unit should remain at level 2 [sem doentes ventilados], pending the creation of new facilities ”, but the situation has changed.
According to the OE, “in the face of the threat of dismissal by the director of the Intensive Care Service, the situation remains so far”, having been reported to the Ministry of Health, the National Data Protection Commission and the Public Ministry.
“The complaint was made to the Order and is signed by a group of nurses who were placed in this unit without having received any training and integration in intensive care, and who consider that the adopted situation compromises the health of the patients and does not guarantee the terms”. nursing practice with quality and safety ”, reads the statement.
The OE describes that “the team does not have the necessary skills to provide the required care”, therefore “it is civilly and disciplinary responsible for accidents or incidents that may occur as a result of the lack of knowledge to provide care.”
CHTS joins the hospitals of Penafiel and Amarante and last month registered 10% of hospitalizations for covid-19 at the national level, registering the peak on November 3 with a peak of 235 patients hospitalized with the new coronavirus.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,621,397 deaths as a result of more than 72.7 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 5,733 people died out of 353,576 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected at the end of December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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