An emergency vehicle in the name of José Boavida – Vision

José Boavida, 51, died. It fell on a street in Queluz, on January 7, close to the night half past eleven, after stopping at the usual restaurant for coffee and before I could get into your car. He was in a coma following a cardiac arrest. Was rescued, and well helped, according to his brother Gabriel, six years younger, and profession of physiotherapist.

The nineteen days that the actor (director and writer) was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Hospital Prof. Doctor Fernando Fonseca, near Queluz, were more than enough for your family might realize that the health unit did not have a medical emergency vehicle and resuscitation (VMER) to your door, as required dispatch 13794/2012 ., published in the Official Gazette

Inevitably, the head of the nearest interrogations followed one another: What if instead of having waited nearly twenty minutes in the VMER that came from Hospital São Francisco Xavier, in Restelo, she had come there to the side, at 1800 meters? And if defibrillation, which is only possible with these emergency vehicles, had obviated the lesions of cardiac arrest? What if, instead of having entered into the Amadora-Sintra to 00h52, had passed through those doors an hour before? And if today, instead of having died, José Boavida had come out of the coma?

The truth is that in cases like this, every minute is vital.

In addition to Amadora -Sintra also the Hospital of Barreiro is missing with this specialized vehicle, which should be on duty 24 hours a day, with a permanent team of doctors and nurses trained to the emergency.

The VISION tried question, from the administrations of these hospitals, the reason for such a gap, but the contact was impossible. It was, however, namely, through the Ministry of Health, that such Order 2012 have been revoked by another in August 2014, which ended with the period of three years to the obligation to have the VMER in 42 hospitals country, all of which have medical-surgical emergency.

And so Prof. Hospital Doctor Fernando Fonseca and the Hospital of Barreiro got rid of the fine for not complying with the law, for alleged financial restraints (have a VMER costs about half a million to each unit, since they must pay for staff and supplies, the rest is borne by the INEM).

However, the Ministry of Health in order of 12 January this year, doubled the economic support given to hospitals by INEM, from 3400 to 6800 euros. This amount, assure us, can only be used for the installation and maintenance of VMER vehicles. The State Secretary and Health, Fernando Araújo, determined that the process of creating these emergency means must be completed by April 30, term more than enough to form teams.

Gabriel Boavida lost brother. Not want leadership nor money, but made a promise to his brother during the almost twenty days that visited him daily to the hospital: “The Amadora-Sintra’s having a fitted VMER and work to serve the people of the county where we live. “

So, have called their Facebook friends for a homeagem Brother, on 30 April. “The word of the Minister does not reach me. We will be there to see if the vehicle actually exists. And a year later come back to see if it’s really working.”