The President of the Hospital of the board of Porto, Sollari Allegro, said today that “in light of this scandal,” it was decided to change the tests to prove breastfeeding, which will be made by analyzes to prolactin.
“To check if they were in lactation [made up] Breast expression, the withdrawal pump or [review of] prolactin and the ladies made the choice of method they wanted. Of course, if they wanted to do, were not and had no effect, “he told Lusa the president of the board of the Hospital Centre of Porto, which includes St. Anthony Hospital.
The Journal public reported on Sunday that two nurses, a St. Anthony’s Hospital and one of St. John, both in Porto, complain that they have had to prove to the labor authorities who were breast-feeding “squeezing milk from the breasts in front occupational health physicians “.
Following the news and” social scandal, “the board of the Hospital Centre of Oporto gave orders that, starting today, to pass to be used only to prolactin analysis” to who accept to do it. “
Sollari Allegro justified by the evidence establish that” there were many people in prolonged aleitamentos, far beyond what is imaginable, “by what was ordered to the Quality department to implement an the control system.
“They decided that there was a call of the people who were breastfeeding for more than two years and then put three hypotheses,” said the official.
About the possible consequences of those who refused to take the test, Sollari Allegro stated that “can not legally be consequences, is an attempt to clarify the situation.”
On Sunday, Health Minister Paulo Macedo, said know the methodology applied by the two hospitals of Porto who asked for evidence of evidence of milk to employees who use the possibility to reduce the service time for nursing mothers.
On the same day, the spokesman of the Left Bloc Catherine Martin, advocated legislative changes to end the attacks on the dignity of women and requested clarification from the Minister of Health on the nurses who had to squeeze milk to prove breast-feeding.
In the same vein were the Member of the statements of PCP Jorge Machado, who told Lusa that the party will question the Government following the complaint that there are workers in hospitals in Port being forced to squeeze milk to prove who are breastfeeding.
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