Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto suspends classes

Classes at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP) are suspended, announced that educational institution, which will seek to “mitigate” the impact of this decision on its students.

The statement from the University of Porto was released a few hours after the Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João (CHUSJ) announced that it had recommended to FMUP “the suspension of activities that require the physical presence of students or teachers, promoting distance learning approaches” .

CHUSJ also communicated to suspension of “all training activities, namely classes, internships or study visits “with the participation of professionals from that hospital center or carried out on its premises.

“Still in accordance with the aforementioned resolution by the CHUSJ Board of Directors, all the students from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto are now banned from circulating in the Hospital de São João building“, warned the UP statement.

A note from CHUSJ further announced that suspended “the activities of the Volunteer Association São João Hospital and associations with social purposes (namely: League of Friends of São João Hospital, Fundação Infantil Ronald MacDonald, Fundação do Gil, Acreditar – Association of Parents and Friends of Children with Cancer, Operation Nariz Vermelho – Associação de Child Support, Associação Vitória Vitória, Bebes de São João) “.

In addition, visits to patients are suspended, as decided by the Directorate-General for Health and the Ministry of Health.

The Minister of Health, Marta Temido, and the Director-General of Health, Graça Freitas, announced on Saturday at a joint press conference that visits to hospitals, homes and prisons in the North were temporarily suspended due to the Covid epidemic. -19 and recommended postponing social events.

Also on Sunday, UP had already said that the shared facilities of the Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICBAS) and the Faculty of Pharmacy will remain closed until March 20.

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