According to information available on the Unified Health System (SUS) portal, the data presented refers to the average waiting time in the previous two hours.

The rules dictate that users considered urgent (yellow bracelet) must be seen within 60 minutes and those considered very urgent (orange bracelet) within 10 minutes.

In the Lisbon region, at 10 am, according to the SNS portal, the Fernando da Fonseca Hospital was where the average waiting times were highest, with more than six hours for urgent users (four people waiting for care after triage) in the general emergency department.

In Santa Maria, the average waiting time reported on the SUS portal at 10 am was more than an hour and there were 10 people waiting for care after triage.

At Hospital Garcia de Orta, in Almada, the average waiting time for urgent patients was around an hour and a half (five people waiting for care after triage), while at Hospital Nossa Senhora do Rosário (Barreiro) it exceeded three hours (eight patients waiting)and in Évora, at Hospital Espirito Santo, users with yellow bracelets waited for more than two and a half hours.

In the Centro region, at the Hospital de Santo André (Leiria), the average waiting time for users with a yellow bracelet indicated on the portal at 10 am was almost two hours, with 14 users waiting after triage.

In the North, at Hospital São João (Porto) at 10 am the average waiting time was more than an hour for urgent users and there were six people with a yellow bracelet waiting for care after