Rui Barros

Published at PÚBLICO
on March 5th, 2020

Health emergency line didn't pick up a fourth of the calls on the day with most demands

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Saúde 24 is a health emergency line provided by the NHS to let anyone speak with a nurse about any health issue someone has. But the covid-19 pandemic supercharged this line. On the first day when the first cases were detected in Portugal, the data showed that one in every four calls were not picked up.

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Coronavirus, NHS