2023-12-28 08:44:00
The Hospital de los Valles has made a difference in 2023 with its preventive medicine actions
Hospital of the Valleys.
Drafting. Quito
Concerned regarding the health of Ecuadorians, in 2023, the Hospital de los Valles (HDLV) has been very active in issues of prevention and health promotion, two necessary aspects to strengthen in the country. Below is a summary of their most notable activities of the year.
In the month of January, HDLV achieved three important milestones: provide Hospitalization, Emergency, Day Hospital and Outpatient Services to patients of the Ambato Private General Hospital with preferential prices; be accredited to perform pediatric kidney transplants with living and cadaveric donors; and incorporate cutting-edge technology to strengthen cardiological procedures.
In February, by World Cancer Day, has raised awareness regarding supporting patients who have cancer and how to improve the prevention of this chronic disease. Subsequently, she has focused on promoting strategies and habits to identify and control childhood obesity in time.
In March, the results of two scientific publications that show the importance of training in Critical Ultrasonography in remote areas of the country and the need to have a second opinion in pediatric cardiac ultrasonography to “confirm or change” the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of children with congenital heart diseases.
In April, within the framework of World Health Day, the HDLV was one of the first to speak and raise awareness regarding the importance of medical follow-up for prevent and early treat the consequences of COVID-19, known as Long Covid. This same month, it signed an agreement with Cedars-Sinai, the second best hospital in the United States, with the aim of improving medical care and the professionalization of the country’s doctors.
In May, the Hospital de los Valles participated in various activities to raise awareness regarding the importance of safety and health at work, with the aim of improving the health of workers and diagnosing diseases such as cerebral infarction in time. He has also emphasized the importance of professional guidance to early diagnose fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome and other serious health problems.
In July, given the high temperatures that were recorded throughout the country, the HDLV has provided the population with multiple recommendations so that they can adequately protect from UV rays and their harmful effects.
For August, faced with the imminent return to school for girls, boys and adolescents, it has promoted the holding of 4 preventive exams to take care of physical and mental health: audiometry, ophthalmological check-up, dental check-up and laboratory tests.
In September he joined the commemoration of the International Suicide Prevention Day, promoting “postvention” as an essential part of the prevention and support process for those facing the followingmath of suicide; World Child Growth Awareness Day to raise awareness regarding the factors that can affect the normal growth of girls and boys; and World Lung Day, evidencing the importance of maintaining optimal lung health following the COVID-19 pandemic, since many patients have pulmonary sequelae following overcoming the disease.
In October, he showed the impact that his innovative service has had on the lives of Quito residents: delivery of medicines and laboratory by drone. Thanks to this unique methodology in the country, patients can now receive their medicines at their homes. Likewise, it has commemorated the World Day to Fight Breast Cancer, with a call to doctors to properly guide women in the early detection of the pathology.
Furthermore, within the framework of the National Organ Donation and Transplant Day (December 14), the HDLV has carried out an awareness campaign to promote voluntary organ and tissue donation.
For him World Radiology Day (November 8), has also highlighted the importance of this medical specialty within the diagnoses and treatments of infectious diseases and non-communicable diseases.
In November it has also carried out a campaign to break the myths around vaccinessince they continue to be very important to protect us from different highly prevalent diseases.
Finally, so far this month of December, it has undertaken two awareness initiatives so that the population takes care of their liver health during these festivities and start 2024 by preventing respiratory complicationssince a wave of respiratory pathologies is currently being recorded, characterized by viral infections.
In this way, the Hospital de los Valles has not only resolved the pathologies of thousands of patients, but has also previously taken care of people’s health by doing preventive medicine.
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