ADVERTISEMENT Patients visiting Portuguese hospitals with urgent cases are having to wait more than nine hours in some cities until they can be admitted into hospitals. The government’s National Health Service – the SNS – reported on Monday that many hospitals in the capital Lisbon are struggling with high demands and shortages in labour. Urgent patients at the Amadora Sintra Hospital in the outskirts of Lisbon faced an average of eight hour waiting periods before they were able to see a