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Hospital beds closed
MARINA BAIXA Hospital has lost 28 beds for six months due to building work.
The works will leave the Cardiology wing inoperative until October in order to take advantage of the drop in the number of operations performed over the summer.
The improvements will cost an estimated €1.2 million and are aimed at making the ward more comfortable and accessible for patients and professionals, with plans to extend the makeover gradually to all areas of the hospital.
However, healthcare trade unions and personnel at the destination since its beginnings in the mid50s, when there was still no awareness of its importance.”
A&E department have criticised hospital managers for failing to take into account the ‘alarming’ lack of beds at the hospital over the last several years and which frequently forces users to wait in corridors until other patients are discharged in order to access a room.
Marina Baixa Hospital was also severely affected by the heavy rains registered last week, with leaks in the ceiling forcing the oncall doctors to abandon the rooms they had just moved into a couple of weeks before and operations being cancelled.
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