The PSD on Friday requested the hearing of the Emergency Response Monitoring Committee in Gynecology on the possible closure of obstetric services in the country, citing a context of “manifest social alarm”.
In a request addressed to the Chairman of the Health Committee, Social Democrat António Maló de Abreu, the PSD parliamentary group calls for the urgent hearing of the Commission for Monitoring the Emergency Response in Gynecology/Obstetrics and Childbirth Block, arguing that the National Service (SNS) “is at a critical stage of its existence” and due to the “lack of attractiveness of the working conditions it offers to health professionals, it suffers from a growing rush of highly qualified doctors, as well as other experienced professionals”.
This reality, they go on, “deteriorates maternal and child care conditions.”
“This year the specialty obstetrics and gynecology was a paradigmatic case in terms of the collapse of users’ access to healthcare, a situation that has become particularly visible and serious in many emergency services and NHS hospital delivery blocks. north to south of the country are temporarily closed,” they regret.
The PSD states that the former health minister, Marta Temido, has “established a committee, coordinated by Professor Diogo Ayres de Campos, which is generally responsible for overseeing emergency response in gynecology/obstetrics and the delivery block”.
“Coincidentally, after a few weeks of news about the possibility of closing the emergency services in obstetrics and gynecology, a few days ago it was reported in the media that the above-mentioned Commission was proposing to the government to set up a series of services in different hospital departments of the SNS,” they underline.
They were called, write the Social Democrats, “the cases of the hospitals of Vila Franca de Xira, Barreiro, Guarda, Castelo Branco, Famalicão and Póvoa de Varzim”.
“The social alarm that this news causes among the Portuguese population is clear, the PSD parliamentary group understands that the Assembly of the Republic needs to hear the clarifications and justifications from the Commission for the supervision of emergency aid in gynecology/obstetrics and childbirth block to the proposed closures,” they say.
However, the PSD notes that “the hearing of the Commission on Emergency Surveillance in Gynecology/Obstetrics and Childbirth Blocks does not affect the political responsibility of the government in a possible decision to permanently close the health services of the SNS hospital. “.
Expresso ‘online’ announced on Tuesday that the Commission for Monitoring the Urgent Response in Gynecology, Obstetrics and Childbirth Block has proposed to the government to close SOS care in two hospitals in Greater Lisbon and two in the geographic area of the Regional Administration from health center: emergency obstetrics in Vila Franca de Xira, Barreiro, Covilhã and Castelo Branco.
Source: DN
