The Algarve Regional Health Administration ( ARS ) have hired 14 doctors, specialising in General and Family Medicine, with the objective to reinforce the teams in health centers across the Algarve region, to fulfil the needs of the local population.
The Executive Directorate of the National Health Service has announced that pediatrics emergency services in the Algarve will be fully operational between July and September in at least in one of the locations (CHUA - Faro/Portimão), while the three services in Alentejo will operate uninterruptedly.
At a time when there are seven municipalities in the Algarve at very high risk of fire, police arrested a woman yesterday in the woods of Monte Gordo, for setting fires.
The National Institute of Statistics say Portugal increased its resident population by 46,249 people last year, totalling population of 10,467,366. They attribute the increase to immigration, which has offset the negative natural balance.
During a general road inspection by the GNR in Quarteira, police noticed the suspicious behaviour of a driver, drastically slowing down his vehicle then initially ignoring requests from the GNR to stop.
Reports have come to light regarding the discovery of cockroaches, spotted at the INEM ambulance base inside Faro Hospital in recent weeks.
Portuguese authorities have seized a “considerable amount of cocaine” that was shipped from Uruguay to Portugal, hidden in surfboards.
A man was arrested on Sunday evening for sexually harassing an eight year old girl in Olhão. The child's screamed, which alerted neighbours who stopped the individual.
