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Emergency services are currently operating within recommended waiting times. However, at the Amadora-Sintra hospital, over twenty patients are still waiting for an inpatient bed, despite the deployment of additional doctors from other services.
The Madeira regional program provides a 150-euro subsidy for prescription glasses to retirees aged 65 or older with a pension not exceeding 805.70 euros. The benefit can be used every three years at 17 participating optical stores by presenting a medical prescription and a Social Security beneficiary declaration.
A new 745-square-metre health centre in São Brás de Alportel is complete, but it cannot open because the Ministry of Health did not provide the necessary medical equipment. The municipality is now seeking €308,000 in European funding via the Algarve 2030 programme to purchase the equipment and open the facility.