New Sintra Hospital opens this Monday

The new Sintra Hospital will be inaugurated this Monday to relieve pressure on the Professor Doutor Fernando Fonseca Hospital (HFF), integrated into the Amadora-Sintra local health unit (ULS), after its construction began in 2021.

The new hospital unit will support the Amadora-Sintra Hospital, one of the largest in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region, and will now handle non-urgent cases in the emergency department.

The inauguration takes place two days after the new hospital opened its basic emergency service (SUB).

According to Carlos Sá, chairman of the board of directors of ULS Amadora-Sintra, the hospital will begin operating in phases.

After opening the SUB on Saturday, the hospital unit opens surgical and hospitalization activities this Monday.

The SUB at the new Sintra Hospital began operating two days after being temporarily suspended in Mem-Martins, due to the transfer of services, last week.

Carlos Sá said that the new hospital will "allow for more differentiated care and closer to the populations" of Amadora and Sintra, "whether in terms of consultations, surgery, hospitalization, and also, of course, emergency care."

The new Sintra Hospital, which began construction four years ago, is located in Casal da Cavaleira, in the parish of Algueirão-Mem Martins, with a covered area of 10,500 square meters and an uncovered area of 49,000 m2.

It represents a total investment of around 81 million euros and will benefit 550 thousand users.

The chairman of the board of directors of ULS Amadora-Sintra indicated that the construction of the building amounted to 63.8 million euros, while the acquisition of equipment and real estate amounted to approximately 17 million euros.

Sintra Hospital offers outpatient services, outpatient consultations and examinations, a mental health unit, physical rehabilitation medicine, a collection center and complementary diagnostic and therapeutic resources, and an outpatient surgery unit with a surgery and recovery room.

It also has a basic emergency service to handle around 60,000 emergencies , around half of those carried out at the Amadora-Sintra Hospital, with 60 inpatient beds, a pharmacy, a sterilization unit and a space for teaching and training.