Azores Situation Report Wednesday 18th January 2023
– From our colleague in the Azores
São Miguel Health Unit with “open consultations” to alleviate emergencies
The São Miguel Health Unit will provide “open consultations” to relieve hospital emergencies, announced the Azorean government, which promised to appoint an administration for the hospital in Ponta Delgada this month.
These are extra appointments on the day. It opens today and aims to deal with those situations of acute illness, but of moderate severity, when it is not necessary to go to the emergency room of a hospital,
There will be two doctors “permanently” in those consultations, which can take place from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm, from Monday to Friday, by appointment, with an expected attendance of 30 users per day.
60% of people who go to a hospital emergency room are not serious situations that require a hospital emergency. Therefore, by going to the Ilha Health Unit and scheduling your appointment for the day, you can have access to that appointment between 5:00 pm and 10:00 pm.
Santa Clara sold 8,000 tickets for the match against Benfica
São Miguel Stadium is expected to register, next Saturday, the biggest crowd of the 2022/2023 season
The match between Santa Clara and Benfica, on the 17th and last round of the first round of the First League, is expected to record the biggest crowd at the Estádio de São Miguel this season.
“Sold out” – that’s what the reds from Ponta Delgada advanced on the club’s social networks on Friday. The publication also stressed that the next game at home, the second of 2023 for the championship, will feature “a full house for the confrontation with Sport Lisboa e Benfica”.
The maximum capacity of the São Miguel Stadium is 10,000 spectators and eight thousand tickets were sold at the official store of the reds in Ponta Delgada.
This season, in the previous eight games held there, the match with the highest number of spectators was the reception to FC Porto (1-1) with 5692 people, followed by the match against Sporting (1-2), with 4447 people.
Santa Clara already had a total of 18,569 spectators at home this season.
Eight men arrested in São Miguel and Santa Maria
The Public Security Police (PSP) arrested eight men on the islands of São Miguel and Santa Maria during the Christmas weekend.
A 33-year-old man was arrested in the parish of Rabo de Peixe, for committing the crime of domestic violence against his wife.
In the municipality of Ponta Delgada, two men, aged 29 and 37, were arrested for the crime of driving a vehicle without a legal license.
In the Municipalities of Ponta Delgada, Nordeste, Povoação and Vila do Porto (island of Santa Maria) five men, aged between 29 and 69, were arrested for the crime of driving a vehicle under the influence of alcohol, with a BAC greater than 1.20 g/l.
On Terceira Island, three road inspection operations were carried out in the municipality of Angra do Heroísmo, which resulted in the detection of 31 violations of the Highway Code and related legislation.
Also, during the Christmas weekend, 23 road accidents were recorded which, in addition to material damage, caused three minor injuries.