Portugal recorded 5,542 deaths in the first two weeks of 2024, the start of the year in which the most people died since 2021, during
The Directorate-General for Health (DGS) will extend the indication for flu vaccination to people aged 50 and over, the Minister for Health announced today. “In
Parliament unanimously approved today, in a final global vote, the first amendment to the informal caregiver statute, extending it to people with no family ties
Around 1,000 episodes of violence against health professionals were recorded last year on the Directorate-General for Health’s Notifica platform, a decrease of 37% compared to
Around 19% of cancer patients who underwent surgery in public hospitals in the first six months of last year were treated with waiting times longer
The League of Portuguese Firefighters today approved the application of fees to hospitals for the retention of ambulance stretchers in emergency rooms, starting on Wednesday
At 18:00 today, the average waiting time for urgent patients exceeded 10 hours at Fernando Fonseca hospital (Amadora-Sintra), and was almost 6 hours at Santa
The president of the Portuguese Medical Association said today that he is not satisfied with the normalization of the inability of the National Health Service
The average waiting time for urgent patients was 15 hours and 46 minutes at 10am today at the Fernando Fonseca Hospital (Amadora-Sintra), where 45 people
Portugal is one of the countries where people die less at home, according to a study by Portuguese researchers that involved 32 countries and analyzed
