2024-01-28 06:26:52
He Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, the largest in Andalusia, is celebrating its anniversary. Last January 22 marked 69 years since it opened its doors for the first time, giving an unprecedented boost to the hospital field in the city. When in 1955 the «García Morato» Health Residence opened its doors it only had one main building, what is today the General Hospital, and it was exclusively a surgical center.
For its construction, high quality materials were used that were inappropriate for the time and with respect to its purpose, A new concept of health center was created, nothing to do with the Hospital de las Cinco Llagaswhich were located in the current Andalusian Parliament.
«These works have been harshly attacked, arguing that they are luxurious and disproportionate. But it should be said that these facilities are built with the decorum that the current advancement of Spanish Medicine demands and with those noble materials that guarantee that we are not continually spending respectable sums on their entertainment. They cannot be called disproportionate either, because large sectors have yet to be incorporated into the field of this Insurance, such as, for example, agricultural workers,” with these words of the general director of Social Security, Fernando Coca de la Piñerathe health residence was inaugurated.
Cardinal Bueno Monreal inaugurates the García Morato Hospital in January 1955 ABC
Social Security doctors, restricted at that time, came to the Residence to operate on their patients, because it was an eminently surgical center, with a floor dedicated to caring for patients. first women who, contrary to custom, did not want to give birth at home.
At García Morato the patients were cared for by nurses and nuns of the order of Saint Annewho remained in the hospital until the 1980s.
Intensive care in 1969 ABC
On the other hand, it did not have a permanent staff of health workers, with the exception of the group of resident doctors, so called, not because they had passed the MIR exam, but because They lived on the first floor of the residence and they attended to emergencies at all hours. This group of young doctors was the seed of the future health service. Internal Medicine.
García Morato Hospital building under construction Serrano
Today, the health area and university hospitals make up the largest clinical complex in Spain. Between that hospital with iron beds and white caps, which we rescue today in the images of the ABC Graphic Archive of Seville, and today’s, there are almost seven decades of Sevillian medicine.
Circoelectric bed in ABC burn unit
Since 1955, the hospital core has not stopped growing and evolving, joining the latest health advances. Little by little, areas of other specialties were included, such as Traumatologyor the Maternal and child Hospitalwhich opened on April 16, 1971.
The first child admitted was on July 15, 1971. The nursery was born as a center aimed at acute ailments (such as diarrhea, fever, infectious pathology…) to progressively become a hospital for care and support for patients with chronic and complex diseases. In fact, the original structure was intended to care for children up to seven years of age and currently the pediatric age range extends to 14.
1.Exterior façade of the Maternal and Child Hospital. 2. Inauguration day of the Children’s Hospital in 1985. 3. ABC waiting room
And the flagship of Andalusian healthcare already has more than 1,500 beds and nearly 10,000 professionals healthcare, management and other services in their workforce. Its specialists serve more than 48,000 admissions, 41,000 surgeries and 1,200,000 outpatient consultations, more than 268,000 emergencies, 450 transplants and 4,800 births. A city in the heart of Seville that He does not sleep to take care of what is most valuable: his health.
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