Azores Situation Report Wednesday 20th March 2024
Plane bound for Colombia lands at Ponta Delgada airport due to medical emergency.
A plane from the airline Avianca, which was connecting Madrid (Spain) and Medellín (Colombia), landed in Ponta Delgada, island and São Miguel, due to a medical emergency that affected a passenger, company sources have said.
Flight AV17 was approximately six hours and forty minutes from its destination when it turned back and made an emergency landing on the island of São Miguel, so that the passenger could be assisted.
Avianca sources confirmed to the Efe agency that the diversion and landing were due to a medical emergency and had nothing to do with technical issues.
According to the same source, the pilot requested authorization to land ‘in the middle’ of the route, four hours after take-off in the Spanish capital, at 3 pm local time.
The Boeing 787 landed safely after quick authorization from the control tower at João Paulo II Airport, in Ponta Delgada.
Between 2018 and 2019, two Avianca planes had to make emergency landings in the Azores due to an alert in the electrical system and another medical emergency.
Ponta Delgada Hospital can now remotely monitor cardiology patients.
The Hospital do Divino Espírito Santo (HDES), in Ponta Delgada, now has technology that allows it to remotely monitor cardiology patients, revealed the institution, highlighting the importance of this innovation for users of islands without a hospital.
The ‘HeartLogic’ and ‘Heart Connect System’ tools, developed by Boston Scientific, allow remote monitoring of patients with heart failure and those with implantable cardiac devices (‘pacemaker’).
“This technology is particularly useful in an archipelagic like the Azores, where there are islands with only health centres without the possibility of face-to-face consultation following this type of surgery”, said cardiologist from the HDES arrhythmology department André Monteiro.
According to the clinician, with this technology travelling from one Island to another can be avoided. if the problem can be solved by remote counselling or hospital transfer can be quickly arranged, if something is identified that can only be resolved elsewhere.
‘HeartLogic’ technology enables continuous remote monitoring of patients with heart failure.
According to the hospital, by using physiological sensors in cardiac devices, this algorithm identifies patients at risk of cardiac decompensation and allows intervention by the medical team following the patient, in order to avoid hospitalization for heart failure, which is a recognized causes of increased mortality in the population.
PJ investigates attack on Cape Verdean citizen in the city of Horta.
The Judiciary Police are investigating an attack that occurred in the early hours of Sunday, next to a nightclub, in the city of Horta, on the island of Faial, against a man from Cape Verde, who is in a medically induced coma.
According to a police source, the man, around 50 years old, who works in the construction industry, was attacked outside a nightclub in circumstances still to be determined.
The Public Security Police (PSP) took charge of the incident, identified the people involved and forwarded the case to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, which has already requested the participation of the Judiciary Police, which is investigating the case, but has not yet detained the suspect, he said. PSP font.
After the attack, the Faial Volunteer Firefighters were called to the scene and transported the victim to Horta Hospital, which even considered sending her to another health unit given the seriousness of her clinical condition.
According to a hospital source, medical evacuation did not occur, given the “reserved clinical condition” of the victim, who remains hospitalized at Hospital da Horta, in an induced coma.
Meanwhile, on social media, publications in support of the Cape Verdean citizen, who some consider having been a victim of “racial hatred”, are already multiplying, so much so that a vigil and demonstration are already scheduled for Tuesday, at 6pm. anti-racist protest in front of the Horta City Council building.