Jornal Médico – Óbidos wants a family doctor for all the inhabitants

The municipality of Óbidos announced that in the first quarter of 2019, she wanted all residents to have a family doctor.

According to a statement from this municipality, Óbidos "currently has a full medical staff", and "three new health professionals have been hired for the county."

The new doctors will provide health care at the headquarters and in the parishes of A-dos Negros and Amoreira and Olho Marinho, and its contraction can predict that "in the first quarter of 2019 the entire population of Óbidos has access to a family doctor ", can be read in the same document.

According to data revealed by the municipal deputy and representative of the municipality in the Council of Community ACES (Groupings of health centers) Northwest, Luis Miguel Oliveira, in 2016 "there were about three thousand users without a doctor family, a situation 300 this year. "

The gap of 300 users is due, according to the local authority, to the fact that one of the doctors is" retired and, in as such, has a reduction of time and a list of users. "However, this situation will be resolved" by filling this vacancy full-time in the first quarter of 2019. "

Luís Miguel Oliveira also states that in 2019 "improvements in the health system" of the county will be implemented. "

The Municipality of Óbidos has health centers with less than 1,750 users, that" ACES Oeste Norte and the municipality do not want to close, forcing them to distribute more doctors to the territory "whose photo, according to the town hall, will have "five doctors. "