The administration of the Amadora-Sintra Hospital acknowledged this Sunday, November 2, that the 36-year-old pregnant woman who died on Friday after being discharged days earlier had been monitored in primary health care since July.
In a statement, the board of directors of the Amadora-Sintra Local Health Unit (ULSASI) revealed that, “due to the lack of a fully integrated clinical information system, which allows the automatic sharing of data and medical records between different services and units […]it was only late this afternoon that it was possible to verify that the user had been monitored in ULSASI primary health care since July 2025at the Personalized Health Care Unit (UCSP) of Agualva”.
According to a statement from the hospital administration, the woman had two pregnancy monitoring consultations, on July 14th and August 14th, and had obstetrics consultations at Hospital Fernando Fonseca, in Amadora, on September 17th and October 29th, the latter two days before she died.
The administration of that ULS highlighted that this Monitoring information since July was transmitted this Sunday to the Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martinsand that the statements made by the government official, in the Assembly of the Republic, where she said that the woman had not had prior follow-up, were “based on information and the statement issued by ULSASI, which referred to the specific episode that preceded the fatal outcome, which took place on October 31st, at Fernando Fonseca Hospital”.
In statements to SIC and CMTV, the woman’s family had already assured that the pregnancy was being monitored at that health unit.
On Friday, the day 38 weeks pregnant died, the director of the obstetric and gynecological emergency service at Amadora-Sintra Hospital, Diogo Bruno, explained that the woman was in cardiorespiratory arrest when she was admitted to the hospital, having been immediately rescued with all the prescribed procedures.
At the time, ULSASI reported that the pregnant woman went to the Amadora-Sintra hospital “asymptomatic” on Wednesday for a routine consultation, during which she was identified as having mild hypertension.
The woman, according to the specialist, “was just for extra care sent to the emergency room”, where pre-eclampsia, one of the complications of pregnancy, was screened for and was discharged with an indication for hospitalization at 39 weeks of gestation.
According to the director, the pregnant woman, from Guinea-Bissau, had recently arrived in Portugal and was referred for an obstetrics specialty consultation with an early term pregnancy.
According to the SNS24 website, “the normal duration of a pregnancy varies between 37 and 42 weeks, with the birth date being calculated for 40 weeks of gestation, which means that a baby born before 37 weeks of gestational age is considered premature”.
At the same time, Diogo Bruno mentioned that the board of directors determined the opening of an internal investigation to investigate all the context of this case, “it is certain that there will be results from this investigation later”.
The General Inspectorate of Health Activities also ordered the establishment of an inquiry process to evaluate the assistance provided to pregnant women, as did the Health Regulatory Authority, which announced the opening of an evaluation process with the same objective.
On Saturday morning, the baby who was born by emergency cesarean section also died, one day after her mother’s death.