The inauguration of the Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy Center “Pdte. Dr. Néstor Kirchner” from Formosa for next Thursday, December 15, at 6:00 p.m.
For such an important event, the arrival of the President of the Nation, Alberto Fernández, who will be received by Governor Gildo Insfrán, is expected to cut the ribbons of this modern building, located on the grounds of the High Complexity Hospital (HAC).
Within this framework, Dr. Rolando Granada, president of the Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy Center Foundation, in statements to the Formosa News Agency (AGENFOR), highlighted that “we are approaching a very important moment in the life of this young institution that is actually already operating, but we need that formal opening with all the seriousness that a work that provides a service not only to Formosa, but to all of the region”.
He indicated that although next week the first stage will be formally enabled, which has to do with radiotherapy, which is already in operation, then there will be a second one, referring to nuclear medicine.
“We were very satisfied with the last visit, not only because of all the state-of-the-art equipment that is deployed there, but also because of the team of professionals that is working, which has been trained and has all the corresponding licenses issued by the authority nuclear regulatory, because that is how it must be to operate equipment where radiation is produced”, he noted.
In such a way that “all of this makes up a Center that is ready, prepared and actually already operational to care for the health of the population in such a complex problem and which, in addition, in the past has had to become even more difficult due to the fact that that there should be a transfer to another place (to do the treatment), including relatives and others”.
“We are already having all this in Formosa and it is a reason for enormous satisfaction and great pride,” said Dr. Granada, who also expressed his satisfaction for “seeing this great facility, this institution with a young general manager like Martín Mutuberria, who is doing an excellent job”, he praised.
In the same way, he stressed that “there is already a significant number of patients who are being treated at the Center, using the latest technology for the treatment of these oncological diseases.”
And he pointed out that “the other component that this Center will have is Nuclear Medicine”, which will include “a set of very powerful tools to produce high-resolution diagnoses, thus helping in the early identification of diseases of different kinds, oncological and others that can affect human health”, he concluded, finally.
