City Hall reopens emergency rooms at Andaraí and Cardoso Fontes hospitals

Rio de Janeiro City Hall reopened the emergency rooms at the Andaraí and Cardoso Fontes hospitals on Monday (February 3), restoring an extremely important service for the North and West zones and expanding the supply of hospital care in the city. The milestone is part of a schedule for the complete revitalization of the hospitals, which have already received improvements since the administrative transition between the Federal Government and the city, formalized just over a month ago.

The actions taken to reopen the services include emergency repairs, renovation of rooms and offices, cleaning of the facilities and hiring of 370 health professionals in total, including doctors and nurses. Initially, the services will operate in temporary spaces. With the works, which are scheduled for completion in the first half of 2026, the units will have Regional Emergency Centers (CER), similar to the large emergency hospitals in the municipal network, in addition to outpatient clinics and highly complex services.

– Today, we reopened two essential emergency rooms for the city of Rio. The Andaraí Hospital is a unit that is over 80 years old and is essential for this region of the city. With its reopening, it will be possible to offer higher quality care to the population. When the Andaraí emergency room closed, the Souza Aguiar Hospital was overwhelmed. In addition, when the Cardoso Fontes emergency room was restricted, the Lourenço Jorge Hospital was also overwhelmed. So, even though it is in a temporary space, it is very important that these two hospitals have emergency rooms again to relieve the burden of care at other units – said the municipal Health Secretary, Daniel Soranz.

The new emergency rooms have the capacity to handle approximately 400 daily procedures each. When the construction work is completed, the hospitals are expected to have the capacity to handle nearly 500 procedures per year. The Andaraí Hospital, which currently has approximately 300 beds, will have 450, and the Cardoso Fontes Hospital, which has 120 beds, will have 250. This will bring the units to a total of 700 beds.

At Hospital do Andaraí, the delivery schedule includes renovations to the wards, modernization of the imaging centers, the technology park and other structural adjustments. At Hospital Cardoso Fontes, the plan includes the opening of a new pediatric wing, a new imaging center and improvements to the Intensive Care Units (ICU), in addition to the revitalization of the facilities.

In both units, the architectural plans are being remodeled to facilitate user access to the service and optimize internal flows. Although the restructuring process of the Andaraí and Cardoso Fontes hospitals is still underway, the reactivation of the emergency rooms represents an important step forward for the city's hospital network, since municipal hospitals such as Lourenço Jorge and Salgado Filho — which serve the population of the West and North zones, respectively — sometimes operate under overload.

Andarai Hospital

Hospital do Andaraí is a reference in medical care in the Greater Tijuca region. As a medium and high complexity unit, it offers hospital, outpatient and emergency referral care, including oncology care. Its services include microsurgery, plastic surgery, support for major trauma and a Burn Treatment Center, which monitors patients from regulation to surgical intervention.

Cardoso Fontes Hospital

Cardoso Fontes Hospital is a reference in medium and high complexity care in the city's West Zone. The unit stands out for its work in oncology physiotherapy, gynecology, nephrology – including treatments for children with kidney failure –, pulmonology and urology. In addition, its dental service for patients who require special care, with the application of general anesthesia, is one of the main references of the Unified Health System in the state.

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February 3, 2025

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