Monday 26 March 2012

502. Azores: Less health and poorer health

The boards of the three hospitals of the Azores are going to record the time delay of arrival to the emergency room doctors who are prevention, today announced the regional secretary of Health We provide guidance to boards of hospitals to proceed to registration calls for the prevention and recording the time at which the trader came to the emergency, Miguel Correia said, stressing that this is a measure of teaching.
Miguel Correia, who spoke at the opening session of the X Conference of General Practitioners, in Horta, Faial, responded this way to the defense that there has been in hospitals in the Azores, after the regional government had suspended partially medical preventions overnight in some specialties such as psychiatry, oncology and dentistry.
The regional secretary of Health stressed that for those who accuse the government of undermining the quality of service provided to users with these cuts in prevention, this is a measure that will definitely improve the quality of service. Miguel Correia also announced, to combat waste in the health sector, the creation of a working group that aims to create common rules in all health units in relation to medical prescriptions and the use of supplementary diagnostic.
The regional secretary of Health also noted that the Executive intends to create more regional health units in the island and family health units to combat the lack of general practitioners in the archipelago. According to Miguel Correia, the government also intends to increase the number of users per family doctor which is currently set at 1500 patients per doctor.
However, the clinical director of the Hospital of Ponta Delgada, Laurindo Frias said at the end of a meeting of the medical committee, which cuts in prevention adopted by the Government of the Azores were not accepted by the medical staff of the hospital. The meeting was marked by great defense and this team has a unanimous position that these measures can not go forward. Therefore, there will be nothing to collaboration that measures are implemented, the responsible clinician said, adding that he was told that the scale of next week is equal to the above.
It relates to the restrictive measures of prevention in some medical specialties determined by the regional executive, against which Laurindo Frias also manifested. I myself am against these cuts, always was, but now I'm more legitimate to say that I am against because they all have the same opinion, he said, admitting that it may be taken a position of strength after a meeting that goes to the direction of the clinical hospital. In this regard, he stressed that the medical commission is an advisory body to the medical director, adding that now will think about this with your team and then send the result to the board and guardianship.
The cuts in prevention of the specialties of Psychiatry, Plastic Surgery, Stomatology and Oncology at the Hospital of Ponta Delgada were implemented from 01 November and part of the package of restrictive measures of the Regional Government applied to the three regional hospitals.
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Desperate attempt of the Azores Regional Government to limit access to health care among the population. Clear demonstration of backward civilization.

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