The device was broken at Mirandela Hospital for a two-year mammogram. The department says it has “procedures in place to acquire new equipment.”
Hospital de Mirandela, located in the Bragança region, has been without a mammogram for nearly two years due to a malfunction.
Complaint from the Municipality of Mirandela do CDS. Even Manuel Almeida, who is part of this party structure, reported an incident involving a family member. He begins by saying “It happened to me and it’s ridiculous.”
“I went to Mirandella Hospital to get a mammogram for my wife, I was told the device had been broken for two years and the employee asked me to go to Terra Quente Hospital” (Private). “It’s a shame for our state and for Mirandela because our users can’t use a machine that’s been around but out of order for two years,” he says.
Faced with this complaint, the Department of the North East Local Health Unit (ULSNE), which runs the three hospitals and 14 health centers in the Bragança region, confirmed in a short written response that the device had failed, but it does. Not since when.
It ensures that “the development of procedures for the acquisition of a new device for performing mammography, to be installed in the Mirandella Hospital unit, which will replace the current device, in the sense of performance with quality, safety, comfort and convenience. Reliability, which is an important means of diagnosing breast diseases”, says ULSNE management in Note sent to JN.
From what we have been able to determine, from a hospital source, the mammogram has been broken since December 2020.
