The Public Security Police (PSP) have launched an investigation following a serious hit-and-run incident in the municipality of Ribeira Brava late yesterday afternoon. Authorities are currently searching for the vehicle’s driver, who fled the scene without stopping to assist. The accident occurred while a nine-year-old child and her mother were…
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Sixty-five nurses from the Intensive Care Medicine Service at Dr. NĂ©lio Mendonça Hospital submitted a formal request for exemption from responsibility to the President of the SESARAM, EPERAM Board of Directors today. The move comes in response to critical staffing shortages, the excessive reliance on overtime, and a lack of…
On Thursday, the Dr. NĂ©lio Mendonça Hospital was swamped, leaving more than 60 patients on trolleys in corridors as beds were unavailable. A spokesperson who contacted JM. said that they were under ‘enormous pressure. With patients lining the corridors, nursing staff claim that this situation is becoming more and more…
An ambulance from the Portuguese Red Cross was forced to reverse for over a kilometre in SĂŁo Roque this afternoon due to bad parking and lack of access. According to local media outlet, JM, the rescue vehicle was trying to reach Estrada Comandante Camacho de Freitas, in the SĂŁo Roque…