From oncology hospital to covid free oncology hospital

• Autor(a) principal: Branco, Paula
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Canhoto, Mónica, Cunha, Tiago, Gonçalves, Vânia, Miguel, Susana
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.31877/on.2020.41.04
• topic: Covid-19; Instituição especializada em cancro; Serviços de Enfermagem; ; Cuidados Centrados no Doente; Cancro; Covid-19; Cancer Care Facilities; Nursing Services; Patient-Centered Care; Cancer

In early 2020, Portugal faced the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The Lisbon’s Portuguese Institute of Oncology Francisco Gentil, prepared itself to assure the screening and due treatment of cancer patients with COVID-19. A contingency plan was drawn up, a crisis task force was appointed and a containment area was created. In April 2020 the Ministry of Health declared the Portuguese Institutes of Oncology as hospitals isolated from those that would treat COVID-19 patients. The crisis task force maintained the internal management of the pandemic, as well as the liaising with the Hospitals that treated COVID-19patients. In this article, we will discuss how this Institution, being a hospital not directed to the treatment of COVID-19 patients, dealt with this pandemic.