José Luís Carneiro, Secretary General of the Socialist Party, addressed the ongoing chaos in the National Health Service (SNS) today, following the news of a pregnant woman’s death after being sent home from the emergency department at Prof. Dr Fernando Fonseca Hospital in Amadora.
“This tragedy is part of a series of serious failures,” Carneiro stated, emphasizing that “the primary responsibility will always lie with the prime minister.”
Carneiro refused to blame the Health Minister, asserting that “the first and last responsibility will always be the prime minister’s” because he is “responsible for forming the government” and for “failing to fulfill promises made.”
He accused Luís Montenegro of making promises that were not kept, stating that solutions for the SNS cannot be made with “random, last-minute solutions.”
Pregnant Woman Dies After Visit to Amadora-Sintra Hospital
A 37-year-old pregnant woman died in the early hours today at Fernando da Fonseca Hospital, known as Amadora-Sintra, after being sent home hours earlier.
The woman, a foreign national, was 38 weeks pregnant. She went to the hospital due to an episode of hypertension but was sent home with a scheduled consultation.
She returned to the Amadora-Sintra emergency department hours later in cardiac arrest.
Doctors were unable to reverse the situation, and she was pronounced dead in the emergency department around 2 a.m. on Friday.
The baby survived but is in critical condition.
The Amadora-Sintra Local Health Unit has launched an internal inquiry into the circumstances of the death. The institution announced an “internal investigation to ascertain all circumstances associated with the incident.”
The Amadora/Sintra Local Health Unit “deeply regrets” the patient’s passing and expressed condolences to the family.
