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The Independent Union of Physicians (SIM) is giving guidance to its members so that, in protest of the “excess of tasks” resulting from covid-19, they present to the heads a declaration of exclusion of responsibilities for clinical errors.
According to SIM, which announced the initiative on its website this Sunday, reproducing the model of the declaration, “the reality that currently exists in institutions that provide health care”, such as hospitals and health centers, is characterized by “a shortage of resources”. and exhaustion of existing ones “.
By not revealing the so-called reinforcement of medical human resources, SIM is giving guidance to its associate doctors to present their protest and disclaimer, addressed “to their direct superiors.
On September 2, the Minister of Health, Marta Temido, announced the publication of the contests for the hiring of 950 new doctors for the National Health Service (911 in the hospital area and 39 in public health).
By signing the statement, the doctor remits the responsibility for any clinical error and harm to patients, as a consequence of the “recurring situation of excessive tasks under his responsibility”, to “who emanated the determination of the provision of work in the form planned, as well as the other hierarchical superiors involved in the respective delivery, transmission and execution ”.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 1.1 million deaths and nearly 40 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the French news agency AFP.
In Portugal, 2,181 people died from 99,911 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
Covid-19 is a respiratory disease caused by a new coronavirus (type of virus) detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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