As a drastic plea for help with his mental health, a man drove his car into the entrance of the emergency department at Cascais Hospital this weekend, warning he was going to do so on social media networks beforehand.
"Mental health has abandoned me", warned Hugo Lopes in a live broadcast on Facebook around 2pm on Sunday afternnon. He spoke about a health problem that has plagued him for about two and a half years, and how he is appauled by the lack of health care he has received. As a protest, he decided to plough his car into the A&E department.
“I continue to suffer atrociously. Sanity has deserted me and this is going to suck and I’m going to end up in jail,” he revealed.
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Hugo explained in his video on Facebook that he has been "two and a half years" waiting for someone to treat him for a serious bowel problem.
According to what he says, his intestine is incapable of digesting food, which means that he constantly spends several days "without being able to have a bowel movement". Hugo Lopes said in the video that he has already had tests at Lusíadas, CUF and Cascais hospitals, that everyone is unanimous that he has no problem, but that "this is impossible, because I cannot even digest a soup". Hugo Lopes explained that this problem originated "an ulcer in the belly" that prevents "the passage of food from the stomach to the intestine".
Disgusted by having been suffering for two and a half years and without a response from the national health system, he opted for this drastic form of protest, driving into the hospital's emergency room with sheets of paper glued to the driver's window.
One of the papers reads: “I leave peacefully after seeing the GNR jeep in the rearview mirror. However, I would like to know why I am being systematically discriminated against in this hospital. I have been asking for help for two and a half years”.
Authorities were called to the scene and the man was arrested.
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