The same source highlighted to Lusa that, “despite the efforts made, the Orthopedics emergency service has limitations”, so the Urgent Patients Guidance Center (CODU) was asked to “refer urgent and emergent situations” of this specialty to other hospitals in the National Health Service (SNS) network.
The request for forwarding ambulances to other hospitals refers to single and multiple trauma patients and with open fractures and runs from 08:30 today until 20:30.
