Long Wait Times in Braga Hospitals
On the first day of the year, hospitals in the Braga district are experiencing wait times exceeding one hour, as reported by the National Health Service (SNS) portal.
The longest wait is at Braga Hospital, clocking in at two hours and 52 minutes, followed by Hospital da Senhora da Oliveira in Guimarães with a wait of one hour and 48 minutes. Famalicão Hospital has a general emergency wait time of one hour and 31 minutes, while Barcelos is seeing waits of one hour and eight minutes.
The Manchester triage system, which assesses clinical risk and assigns priority levels, categorizes cases into five urgency levels: emergent (red wristband), very urgent (orange), urgent (yellow), less urgent (green), and non-urgent (blue). For yellow wristband cases, the first response should ideally be within 60 minutes, and for green wristbands, the target is 120 minutes.
According to SNS's online portal, as of 10:30 AM, the hospital with the longest wait time in the country was Beatriz Ângelo Hospital in Loures, with a staggering wait of nine hours and 33 minutes for urgent patients. In the Lisbon district, Fernando Fonseca Hospital (also known as Amadora-Sintra) reported wait times of eight hours and 21 minutes for urgent cases and one hour and 18 minutes for very urgent cases.
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