The duplication will make it possible to treat more patients affected by oncohematological pathologies, that is, blood diseases such as myeloma, lymphoma, acute leukemia and chronic leukemia.
The Day Hospital Department of Adult Hematology The Hospital de Clínicas has a new room and four new chairs with their respective first-generation injection pumps for their patients, thus increasing to eight places for relevant treatments.
Dr. Osmar Cuenca Torres thanked the efforts of the staff and the companies they supported to provide better patient care, with human warmth and professional excellence.
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He also thanked the department’s team of doctors, nursing and administrative staff. He stressed that the human group plays a very important role.
He expressed his full support for Adult Hematology, in everything within his reach, emphasizing that if something is not available, he will always make an effort to obtain it.
On behalf of the Department of Adult Hematology, Dr. José Zarza also thanked all the staff under his charge, adding that theirin their work it would be impossible to improveI am emphasizing that teamwork is essential.
He stressed that with The new equipment will improve. He thanked the company Bioéticos for the collaboration to improve the service, and considered a step forward for the benefit of patients and students in training at FCM-UNA.
Dr. Rodrigo Santacruz, a member of the Adult Hematology staff, explained that the opening It was possible through effort and internal management.
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in this way andhe Day Hospital has four more chairs, with their respective injection pumps, all new, first generation. “With this we are going to make it easier for patients and it is going to help work to be much more agile,” he said.
He commented that it was possible through the donation made by the Bioethics laboratory, which supported the logistics and improvements as well as expansion of the building infrastructure It was possible thanks to the officials of the Technical and Maintenance Department.
The duplication will allow treating more patients affected by oncohematological pathologiesthat is to say of the blood such as myeloma, lymphoma, acute leukemias and chronic leukemias.
The Day Hospital treats approximately 150 patients a week, on an outpatient basis. Besides, there are hospitalized patients for whom they have five own beds and about 30 patients who are hospitalized in medical clinic rooms, in charge of Adult Hematology.
Meanwhile, the Transplant Unit of said Department has a parallel operation, with external help from the Ministry of Health, through the National Institute of Ablation and Transplantation (INAT), where they have already benefited 16 patients since 2017, with a pause in the covid-19 pandemic.
He explained that the patients undergoing transplant, upon discharge, They continue their controls at the Day Hospital, which fortunately already has more places with this new opening and now the plan is to try to have more nurses.
