The Pain Unit at Madeira’s Regional Health Service (SESARAM) has performed a pioneering procedure using a high-density percutaneous electrode to treat patients living with chronic pain. The procedure, carried out for the first time at Dr Nélio Mendonça Hospital, combines the electrode with an advanced spinal cord stimulation system. According…
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A group of users, family members and concerned citizens from the Autonomous Region of Madeira has issued an open letter describing what it calls a situation of “extreme seriousness and humanitarian urgency” within the Non-Urgent Patient Transport Service operated by the Regional Health Service of Madeira (SESARAM, EPE). The signatories…
The JPP has requested a parliamentary hearing with the Regional Secretary for Health and Civil Protection and SESARAM’s Clinical Director over the reported existence of around 500 patients who have been medically fit for discharge but remain in hospital due to a lack of social care provision. Speaking at a…
The Health Service of the Autonomous Region of Madeira (SESARAM) has temporarily suspended visits to patients admitted to the Emergency Department of Dr Nélio Mendonça Hospital. The measure came into effect immediately and will remain in place until the situation is reassessed. The suspension applies to the two usual visiting…
Madeiran doctor Rafael Macedo, who recently ceased his duties as health delegate of the municipality of Vila do Porto, on the island of Santa Maria, in the Azores, has caused controversy after having released, on his Facebook page, images of a foetus found in a local rubbish dump, according to…
It was in Elsevier’s journal Cancer Epidemiology that the Madeira Oncological Registry (RO-RAM), part of the Health Service of the Autonomous Region of Madeira (SESARAM), published its first scientific work in an international peer-reviewed journal. According to a press release, the study presents a pioneering methodological approach in Europe, which…
An 82-year-old man died after falling from a 3rd-floor window of the Hospital dos Marmeleiros, in circumstances that are yet to be clarified. According to what could be ascertained, the elderly man was classified as a ‘problematic discharge.’ Despite being clinically cured, he had been hospitalised for some time because…