Built with resources from a millionaire public indemnity, the Institute of Otorhinolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery (IOU) will be inaugurated on Tuesday (28) at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp). The unit will have a capacity for 200,000 consultations and 4,000 surgeries per year, with 70% of the consultations for the Unified Health System (SUS) and 30% for the private sector.
The construction of the institute began in 2020 with funds from an indemnity for collective moral damage. The appeal is the result of a public civil action in the Shell-Basf case, an agreement signed in the Labor Court to compensate for contamination at the pesticide industrial plant in Paulínia (SP). The amount was R$ 65 million.
The non-profit institute will function as a teaching hospital, with care, surgeries, as well as teaching and research. The institution will offer multidisciplinary treatment with modern procedures and surgeries with less invasive methods, contemplating cancer patients, with diseases of the respiratory tract and otorhinolaryngology (nose, ear and throat).
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The unit will receive 130 students from Unicamp per year, both in medicine and speech therapy, in addition to residents from all over Brazil. The IOU will also have a genomics laboratory for the development of research, which will be coordinated by the scientist specialized in genetics Paulo Arruda. There will be two lines of research: genetics of deafness and genetics of head and neck cancers.
Among the main services to be performed at the hospital are: head and neck cancer, hearing impairment, tracheostomized child, balance disorders, facial paralysis, dysphagia, sleep medicine, oral cavity diseases, voice disorders, skeletal deformities of the face, breathing, swallowing and phonation and communication disorders.
