In a statement, the executive management said that this tool automatically integrates the emergency schedules that appear in the Integrated Provider Information System for the next seven days and is accessible at https://www.sns.gov.pt/servicos-de-urgencia-sns/.

"This means that the information made available is obtained from the platform where hospitals permanently upload and update their staff schedules for emergencies, which is the same one that serves for the referral of users through the SNS 24 Line (808 24 24 24)", explained the executive management.

According to the statement, users can search by type of emergency, by region, by the local health unit, and by health unit and "know, quickly and intuitively, which hospitals are closest and which are accessible".

The executive management said that this data will be updated hourly, providing users with the response of each hospital and the NHS at the level of their emergency services.

The Executive Board of the SNS also stressed that the plan for the summer "is being fulfilled" in terms of obstetrics/gynecology emergencies, which, in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region, which has presented more difficulties in rosters in recent weeks, are working in a network, in order to "always guarantee a response".

This plan for obstetrics/gynecology emergencies was agreed between the Ministry of Health, the clinical directors, and the chairmen of the boards of directors of the hospitals involved, he says.

In the last two weeks, the Ministry of Health published the map of open, constrained, and closed emergency services for the following days, with the greatest constraints on health professional rosters in Lisbon and Vale do Tejo in the areas of obstetrics and paediatrics.