Heads of surgery in Faro Hospital refuse to take emergencies from 1 January

Faro, 05 Dec 2019 (Lusa) – Faro Hospital’s Surgery team leaders said today they were unavailable to  take emergencies from 1 January, but the hospital’s management says the service will be guaranteed with outside doctors.

In a letter sent today to the administration of the Algarve Hospital and University Center (CHUA), about a month after saying they refused to do extra work, the chiefs of surgery justify the measure with the “persistence of the current, unacceptable and degraded” working conditions in the emergency service “.

Speaking to reporters after a meeting that brought together several doctors and the president of the Order of Doctors at the Faro hospital, the director of the Surgery Service, Martins dos Santos, said this was “a last position” after “several promises of improvement of conditions, underlining that there is” an exhaustion that undermines the quality “of the service provided.

To journalists on the sidelines of the meeting, CHUA Chairman Ana Paula Gonçalves said that if surgeons advance with the intention of not providing emergency care on January 1, the service will be guaranteed by a group of 12 medical doctors that “long ago” have filled these gaps.

One of the claims of the team leaders expressed in the letter, to which Lusa had access, is the same payment as the so-called tarefeiros doctors, since, “for the same work”, the remuneration “is subject to very different regimes”.

Ana Paula Gonçalves, said she understands that doctors do not see this disparity “with good eyes”, but stressed that this is not a problem whose resolution is “in the hand” of the CHUA administration, since “there are different rules” for payment. of who has bond and of the chores.

Among the problems listed by the Head of the Surgery Service, there are also limitations of space and conditions to observe patients, lack of beds for urgent patients and difficulties in access to the operating room.

“Surgeons are unable to observe patients, have a single room where they have to observe 30 to 40 patients and have systematically difficulty accessing the operating room,” he said, adding that the lack of beds causes patients to “pile up” in the emergency service.

He says that in 32 years in the hospital of Faro the situation “has never been so bad” as now, at risk for professionals and users, as it is also concerned with “their ability to discern”.

Ana Paula Gonçalves admitted that there is a shortage of space in the hospital, but said that next year the extension of the emergency service is planned.

The intervention is already in the investment plan for 2020 and will allow “better and more comfortable accommodation” patients, although occasional improvements in the service have been made, he said.

“Our hospital is really a hospital that is inadequate to the type of care that patients today deserve. We don’t hide that at all. Now that it is not in our hands overnight to do so is not, ”he said.

To the journalists, the president of the Medical Association, Miguel Guimarães, expressed “total solidarity” with those professionals, who “are often working without adequate clinical safety.”

“What these doctors are doing is giving a warning cry,” he said, blaming the Ministry of Health, which has “to look into this situation” and take steps to have doctors from the National Health Service (NHS). ) are paid in the same way as so-called tarefeiros.

Miguel Guimarães argues that doctors “who do SNS every day and who wear their nightgown” when they are doing emergency overtime work, “should be paid the same way that the doctors do.

According to the president, the workers are hired on an hourly basis for between 40 and 50 euros, while doctors in hospitals earn between 12 and 17 euros per hour for the same service.

The Parish Councils of Alte, Ameixial, Salir and Union of Parishes Querença, Tôr and Benafim received on 27^th November from the municipality of Loulé, wood mulching machines, as part of the preventive measures to protect the forest against fire.

To these four are added to two more machines under the manamagement of the Municipal Civil Protection Service and that will provide support to the remaining parishes, in a total investment of around 200 thousand euros.

Through these machines delivered to the parishes considered as priority in terms of risk of forest fire, it is possible within a few minutes to eliminate the surplus from agricultural work, preventive forestry and work related to fuel management strips, resulting in a biodegradable product that can be used as fertilizer and humus for the growth of new plants and trees.

Considering that more than 50 per cent of ignitions in recent years are from burns (heaped waste and extensive burns), this equipment is of particular importance in significantly reducing the scenario often experienced in these areas – the deposit of wood and other combustible materials from stacked forest and farm farms that are an eminent focus of fires – as well as reducing the number of burnings left over, two situations that often cause fires.

‘Most of the fires in the municipality are the result of burnings carried out without the necessary precautions or are the result of poor land clearing.

From today, the owners will have at their disposal this equipment which, I am sure, will considerably reduce the risk of fire in our territory, ”said Vitor Aleixo, Mayor of Loulé.

Already from the representatives of the parishes considered priority according to the ICNF – Institute of Nature Conservation and Forests, Adriano Cabrita (Alte), Jose Fernando Carrusca (Ameixial), Deodato João (Salir) and Margarida Correia (Union of Parishes), Every day the joints are asked about the fate to be given to the leftovers that are often deposited with waste containers, so these machines are an added advantage in solving this problem.

Vitor Aleixo also stressed that “this is another tool that is part of the municipal policy of defense and protection of our forest.”

Public awareness campaigns, the ‘Safe Village, Safe People’ program, the creation of fuel management lanes, along with the various plantations that have taken place are some of the actions taken to preserve forest heritage and biodiversity, landscape and ecological area.

The Faro Territorial Command, through the Portimão Territorial Detachment,on, November 26th, carried out a surveillance operation directed to wild caravaning, in the Southwest Alentejo and Costa Vicentina Natural Park (PNSACV).

The inspection was carried out on the Amado, Barranco, Ingrina and Ponto da Fisga beaches, all belonging to the PNSACV, with the objective of protecting natural resources, maintaining and enhancing natural and semi-natural landscapes, and these values ​​are threatened with illegal occupation of these spaces, accompanied by uncontrolled waste disposal by caravans.

In the course of the inspection actions, 77 notices of offense for prohibited caravanning practices were prepared, all of them provided for in the Regulations of the PNSACV’s Planning Plan.

The notices of contravention will be sent to the Institute of Nature Conservation and Forests.

The GNR stresses that it is necessary to adopt ‘environmentally friendly’ behavior, as caravanning, outside the spaces and rules, can endanger not only nature and the environment, but also a health risk to the public.

CIVIL PROTECTION TESTS EXTERNAL RESPONSE TO AN ACCIDENT IN FARO AIRPORT

Tonight (November 26^th), the authorities will test their response plan, involve a full-scale internal and external response to a major air crash at Faro International Airport (AIF). This is an exercise in which the security and safety component will be tested in accordance with the provisions of the Airport Emergency Plan and the Prior Intervention Plan for that infrastructure.

The exercise, called “AFR_LIVEX 2019”, aims to test the Integrated Response plan established through the articulation between the Faro District Relief Operations Command (CDOS), the AIF, the Civil Protection Agents (APC), Cooperating Entities (EC) and the Municipal Civil Protection Services of Faro and Loulé, and will be attended by about 220 participants, in addition to the internal resources of the AIF.

The AFR_LIVEX 2019 exercise is scheduled to begin after 22:00 (local time) on November 26, 2019, with an approximate duration of 4 hours.

All communications related to the exercise should be directed to the email address created for this purpose: aeroportofaro.LIVEX2019@ana.pt

On November 7, members of the Faro Police Division’s Criminal Investigation Squad detained a 16-year-old Portuguese national following a further action to combat drug trafficking in the region and in particular in near schools in the city of Faro.

This arrest comes as a result of an investigation launched a few months ago and following the police operation carried out in mid-October this year, where several searches were carried out in three municipalities in the region.

The detainee conducted much of his illicit activity near some schools and had as his preferential audience other young people. For this reason and given his young age, he was already signalled by staff of the Safe School Program Team.

The young man in reference had been intercepted on the public road, in possession of several doses of hashish and liamba. Subsequently, a home search was carried out and the PSP seized a total of 108 individual doses of hashish, 310 doses of MDA, about 220 grams of lymba, 3 knives and a mobile phone.

The detainee was present to the Judicial Authority and the measure of coercion of term of identity and residence was applied.

The National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority (ANEPC) will hold the 7th edition of the national seismic risk awareness exercise, called A TERRA TREME (www.aterratreme.pt) on 15th November at 11:15 am ).

The exercise TERRA TREME is promoted annually by ANEPC, in partnership with the Directorate General of Education (DGE) and the Directorate General of School Establishments (DGEsTE), and aims to empower the population to know how to act before, during and after earthquake, namely that it knows preventive measures and self-protection behaviours to be adopted to protect itself.

The exercise itself comprises the practice of 3 simple gestures that can make a difference to those who practice them in the event of an earthquake. The action takes place during 1 minute, in which participants, individually or collectively (families, schools, companies, public, private or associative institutions), perform the 3 self-protection gestures: Download – Protect – Wait.

In addition to the school age population, whose adherence to the initiative has been significant, ANEPC has the goal of successively widening, year after year, the reflection and debate on the theme of seismic risk and the participation in this initiative to other sectors of civil society. To this end, we consider it strategic to involve organizations – public, private and associative – in this collective purpose, seeking to this end to join efforts and extract synergies from the whole of society, so that individual and collective degrees of resilience are achieved.

Although the exercise has national expression, ANEPC will hold, in coordination with DGE and DGEstE, a main event at Sebastião e Silva Secondary School, in Oeiras, located at Rua do Liceu 61.

Throughout the country, District Relief Operations Commands (CDOS) will, in partnership with local communities, fire associations, municipal civil protection services, other civil protection agents and schools, promote awareness raising on seismic risk and self-protection measures to cope with it, as well as streamline the implementation of the A TERRA TREME Exercise, at a date and time agreed for that purpose.

In the context of the TERRA TREME Exercise, ANEPC created:

Digital The digital website www.aterratreme.pt, where information about the Exercise and dissemination resources can be obtained;

 The hashtag #aterratreme designed to identify personal / institutional publications related to the initiative on social networks.

ANEPC proposes to all citizens, in addition to participating in the exercise itself, the following actions:

Individual Individual and / or Institution registration on the digital website (www.aterratreme.pt/subscribe);

 Response to a survey aimed at assessing the degree of perception of seismic risk (www.aterratreme.pt/inquiry);

 Conduct an evacuation exercise based on an earthquake scenario on 15-11-2019, preferably at 11:15 am, the date and time chosen for the exercise TERRA TREME;

 Holding an awareness session on preventive measures and self-protection behaviours to be adopted in the event of an earthquake;

 Disclosure on the website and other digital media of the respective institution, the initiative (in the form of banners, email signatures, etc.);

 Dissemination of the allusive exercise video spot (available on the digital site).

ANEPC, DGE and DGEsTE invite citizens and entities to register at www.aterratreme.pt as a demonstration of their personal / institutional commitment to the cause of safety and security, and as a means of public support and expression.

The Faro Public Security Police District Command informs that on 8^th November, members of the Faro Police Division’s Criminal Investigation Squad detained a 16-year-old Portuguese national following a another action to combat drug trafficking in the region and in particular near schools in the city of Faro.

This arrest comes as a result of an investigation launched a few months ago and following the police operation carried out in mid-October this year, where several searches were conducted in three municipalities in the region.

The detainee developed much of his illicit activity near some schools and had as his preferential audience other young people, and for this very reason and given his young age, was already signalled by staff of the Safe School Program Team.

The young man had been intercepted on the public road, in possession of several doses of hashish and liamba. Subsequently, a home search was carried out and the PSP seized a total of 108 individual doses of hashish, 310 doses of MDA, about 220 grams of lymba, three knives and one mobile phone.

The detainee was present this morning to the Judiciary Authority and an identity and residence term was applied.

Given the places of choice where almost all the criminal activity was carried out by the youth, PSP believes that it has made a solid contribution in combating crime of this nature and in schools. We reiterate that we will pay particular attention to this phenomenon.

A former Irish priest, considered one of the greatest paedophiles in the Catholic Church for admitting rape and sexual abuse to more than 20 children in the 1970s and 1980s, has been detained in the Algarve.

The person widely reported in the media as 74-year-old Oliver O’Grady was being sought by the Irish authorities on suspicion of child pornography. Since late 2018, O “Grady lived in Loulé, in the Algarve hills, where he fled after a recurring crime. On Monday, he was located by inspectors from the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Judicial Police, who complied with the European Arrest Warrant.

O’Grady has a long history of sexual offenses against minors. In 1993, when he was a priest in California, USA, he was sentenced to 14 years in jail for crimes of sexual abuse. He served about half and was deported to Ireland. Then he moved to Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Despite his registration and not working in the Church, he worked as a volunteer in a parish of Rotterdam, where he organized children’s parties.

But the scale of O’Grady’s crimes was even greater and was not known until 2006, when the convicted paedophile admitted to having raped and abused more than 20 children in the documentary “Deliver us from evil”, which reported the crimes and the way the Church handled the case. It didn’t stop anyway. In 2010, he was again arrested. A computer was left on a plane and police found more than 280,000 images, six hours of videos and 500 pages of discussion about child pornography. He was sentenced to three years in jail.

In 2016, journalists found him living in Dublin, near a playground and schools. At the time, he said he avoided leaving when children were on the street and admitted, “Maybe I’m better off in a more secluded area.” The Irish authorities have kept an eye on him and believe he has relapsed.

Portugal’s Policia Judiciaria confirmed they arrested him on Monday.

They added: “The Irish national was wanted by the Irish authorities on suspicion of a crime of child pornography.

“He has been remanded in prison after a court appearance pending his handover to the Irish authorities.”

The government today extended the critical period of fires until October 10, under the Forest Fire Defence System, due to the forecast of dry and hot weather, the executive announced today.

In an order of the Secretary of State for Forests and Rural Development, Miguel Freitas, published today in Diário da República, it is stated that the critical period is extended until October 10 due to the forecast of “maintaining the risk of rural fire at high levels”. .

The most critical fires season ended today, with a reduction in resources in the first half of October, which would be greater from the 15th.

At stake are “probable weather conditions for the first 10 days of October, temperatures above the standard for the season, a low probability of precipitation with a below-average rainfall level forecast, with a tendency to dry and hot weather throughout the national territory ”, is mentioned in the order.

Thus, according to the Government’s note, during the critical period of fire, in forest or agricultural spaces, smoking, firing or burning fires, burning or burning, launching rockets and burning balloons and fumigating or disinfecting apiaries is prohibited, unless the fumigators are equipped with spark arresters.

It is also prohibited to circulate, or use, tractors, machinery and heavy transport vehicles that do not have a fire extinguisher, spark or spark arrest system and flame arrestors in the exhaust pipes or chimneys.

Data available on the website of the Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests (ICNF) indicates that this year, until September 27, 10,289 rural fires broke out, reaching 41,006 hectares, 51% of forest stands, 38% of forests and 11 % of agriculture.

As of July 1, a total of 4,888 rural fires had struck, affecting 9,705 hectares of forests, 41% of them in forest stands, 43% in bushland and 17% in agricultural areas.

The Algarve Regional Health Administration warns the population of special attention regarding false breast cancer screening through fraudulent telephone calls.

The ARS Algarve Screening Center has learned that telephone calls have been made in recent weeks to users in the region on behalf of the Breast Cancer Screening.

The contact person calls himself a doctor and responsible for the ARS Algarve screening program and requests personal data and procedures that have nothing to do with the Breast Cancer Screening Program in the Algarve.

In light of the actions reported by our users that are likely to affect the public’s confidence in legitimate screening carried out under the Ministry of Health’s programs, with a view to promoting the prevention and early detection of a particular disease, ARS Algarve will report such instances to the authorities.

ARS Algarve also informs the population that:

The Algarve Breast Cancer Screening Program, carried out in partnership with the Algarve Cancer Association and the Algarve University Hospital Center, began in September 2005 and runs throughout the Algarve, and is now on its seventh stage.

All women from 50 to 69 years old enrolled in the Health Centers of the region are always contacted by letter sent by the ARS Algarve Screening Center, with the appointment / invitation to perform 3D digital mammography with free Tomosynthesis at the Mobile Health Unit, which runs through all the municipalities and is always installed in the respective Health Center.

Only in exceptional cases can users be contacted by telephone, but only to reinforce the screening, and never to request personal information from users of any kind.

Screening actions promoted by ARS Algarve among the population in various health areas are always advertised on its website – www.arsalgarve.min-saude.pt, which can be complemented by posters, but never by personal contact, in particular by telephone.

If you have any questions regarding the screening or procedures of the ARS Algarve Screening Center, please contact 289 88 99 12 or by email to rastreio.oncologico@arsalgarve.min-saude.pt .