Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa on the front line in the response to COVID-19

Digital

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March 2020 will forever be marked as the month when all social services and responses of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa had to adapt to the pandemic situation caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and the Covid-19 disease.
The reorganization of services was reflected in the contingency plans, which followed the guidelines of the General Directorate of Health and were fundamental for the prevention and non-dissemination of the virus.
The context of uncertainty and risk that we are going through, as well as the need to act in an emergency, should not prevent us from reflecting on the issues we had to face, the strategies and responses we developed, and the challenges that still lie ahead.
In this sense, I considered it extremely relevant to gather a set of information that reflected not only the path taken collectively but also to provide us with elements to foresee future challenges.
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This book reflects what we experienced over the past months, once again recording in the history of SCML how the entire City was cared for and protected by all of us. I am sure that in the future we will proudly say that it was all of us who fought this pandemic.
Sérgio Cintra
Executive Administrator of Social Action,
Entrepreneurship and Social Economy of SCML

Coordination: Alexandra Castro and Isabel Guerra
Authors: Cátia Vale (UTA), Elisabete Lopes (UTA), Sofia Costa (NMAG), João Fernandes (NMAG), Lara André (NMAG), Luís Conceição (NMAG), Paulo Ferreira (NMAG), Rogélia Vargues (NMAG), Ana Firmino (DIEPE), Genoveva Borges (DIEPE), Hélder Oliveira (DIEPE)

Design: TVM Designers

Year of publication: November, 2021
Publisher: Editorial Center of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa
ISBN (electronic support): 9789899151116