Since the beginning of this month, the Emergency Psychiatry unit has been in operation at Portimão’s Algarve University Hospital, officials have claimed this will “improve the accessibility, quality and speed of care for people with mental illnesses in the Western Algarve, reducing the flow of patients to Faro’s Emergency Psychiatric facilities", according to a statement from ARS Algarve.
Former world number one Lee Westwood, who won the Portugal Masters ten years ago, is returning to the Algarve tournament at the Dom Pedro Victoria Golf Course in Vilamoura. The tournament will last from October 24-27th.
Alagoas Brancas in Lagoa is one of the few remaining freshwater lagoons in the Algarve. It is currently, almost totally fenced off as it awaits approval for a developer to drain it, concrete over it, and construct a supermarket there. The exact location is adjacent to an Aldi supermarket, which just so happens to be next to an Apolonia supermarket - there is much-justified opposition locally and from environmental bodies, but sadly money talks as usual.
Diogo Freitas do Amaral, a CDS conservative politician who played a leading role in cementing democracy after the country's 1974 Carnation Revolution, and later became president of the United Nations General Assembly, has died. He was 78.
Following the departure of the “Allgarve” program, which ran in both 2008 and 2009, the Loulé Rock-Salt Mines have limited their visits exclusively to academics in recent years, opening their doors only to schools, universities and the Live Science Program which runs in the summer.
The municipality of Tavira announced this Thursday that the contract for the implementation of a pedestrian and cycling bridge over the Almargem River (in Cabanas) is already underway.
This year the National Health Service will have 1.4 million doses of influenza vaccines ready to give free of charge to the elderly, those in care institutions, and some chronically ill patients.
According to the Azorean Civil Protection service, the number of people in the Azores who have had to be resettled due to the passing of Hurricane Lorenzo, was 53. Furthermore, the destruction of the Lajes Port "jeopardizes supply to the island of the Azores", says Regional Government President Vasco Cordeio.
