Of this €2.2 million total, €1.2 million went toward acquiring 10 new surgical beds, €74,000 for a table designed for use with the surgical robot, and €880,000 for the purchase and installation of a biplane angiograph, the Matosinhos ULS stated in a press release.

In the operating rooms, the new equipment represents a significant improvement over the previous system, notably by replacing fixed-installation columns with mobile ones.

This solution allows the column and its corresponding tabletop to be moved between different rooms or workstations, facilitating the preparation, cleaning, and reorganisation of the operating rooms, the unit explained.

Meanwhile, installing the biplane angiograph will boost diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities, ensuring a faster and more specialised response—particularly in stroke care, interventional radiology, and neuroradiology.

Diagnostic capacity

The new equipment will also reduce reliance on external providers by bringing exams currently performed outside the institution in-house, and expand and diversify gastroenterology services—specifically by enabling procedures such as endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)—while creating the conditions to implement new interventional and treatment techniques.

With this investment, ULS Matosinhos has gained greater diagnostic and therapeutic capacity, increased operating room efficiency, and the ability to bring in-house exams currently performed outside Pedro Hispano Hospital, he highlighted.

According to Nélson Pereira, Chairman of the Board of ULS Matosinhos, these investments represent “a path of continuous improvement to provide better patient care and offer better working conditions for the teams.”