Overview
- CHUS reported 487 emergency attendances between Monday morning and Tuesday, with 331 same‑day discharges and 82 admissions, and the day opened with 747 inpatients and 30 people waiting for a ward bed.
- At CHUAC, the workers’ commission said just after 13:00 there were more than 240 patients in Emergencies and 68 awaiting admission, while management acknowledged heavy pressure tied to respiratory illnesses.
- CHUAC leadership stated the winter plan is active, organizational measures are in place according to overcapacity levels, care is guaranteed, and 60 patients are currently hospitalized with influenza.
- Emergency staff at Hospital Álvaro Cunqueiro began an indefinite daily stoppage from 17:00 to 17:15, pledging to maintain responses to life‑threatening cases while protesting overcrowding and stalled expansion plans.
- Frontline teams describe bed shortages that keep admitted patients in Emergency for days, causing corridor care, long waits, crowding and risks to care quality and patient safety.