The average waiting time for urgent patients in the emergency department at Amadora-Sintra Hospital exceeded 10 hours this morning, according to the National Health Service (SNS) portal.
According to information updated at 12:30 pm and consulted by Lusa, the average waiting time for the first observation was 10 hours and 47 minutes for urgent patients (yellow bracelet) and 15 hours and 24 minutes for non-urgent patients (green bracelet). Very urgent patients (orange bracelet) had a maximum waiting time of 21 minutes.
At the time of the last update made on the SNS website, there were 64 patients in the general emergency room at Hospital Fernando Fonseca, most of them not urgent.
According to the triage system, very urgent situations (orange) are recommended to be attended to within 10 minutes following triage, while urgent situations (yellow) take 60 minutes and less urgent situations (green) take 120 minutes.
This Friday, thirty general emergency doctors at Hospital Amadora-Sintra warned of the “unsustainable situation” of this service, alleging deficient scales that do not meet safety ratios.
According to the South Zone Doctors’ Union (SMZS), on the first weekend of November, the waiting time in the emergency room exceeded 24 hours, a situation that the Board of Directors of the Amadora-Sintra Local Health Unit justified with absences by doctors who were scheduled.