2023-07-30 18:10:49
The first case of Covid-19 in Mexico was attended at INER and it occurred on February 28, 2020.
A mobile hospital was set up in the hospital parking lot that provided care for 28 months.
The Institute ensures that none of its workers have died from Covid-19 during the pandemic.
In it National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER) “Ismael Cosío Villegas” the mural was unveiled For the feat of continuing to breathe. Its objective is to honor the health personnel of this institution for their work, dedication and commitment to the lives of the patients treated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This work also marks the conclusion of a decade of management of the former CEO, Jorge Salas Hernandez, who on June 30 left ownership of this unit. In his case, he had to face the challenges implied by the SARS-CoV-2 virus pandemic that began in 2020 and until the end of his position.
Work done during the pandemic
He INER It is a reference in the care of COVID-19 and during the health crisis it joined forces with the Mexican Red Cross. With this, he set up a mobile field hospital within the institute’s parking lot, where services were provided for 28 months.
It should be mentioned that the first patient in Mexico with COVID-19 was diagnosed at the INER on February 28, 2020and in this hospital center there were no deaths from this cause among the personnel who worked during the pandemic.
The mural For the feat of continuing to breathe is a comprehensive approach by health personnel from the institute who faced the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It was unveiled before a hundred people invited at the INER Respiratory Emergency Unit and is part of the cultural heritage of this institution that is made up of several works.
It exalts the interdisciplinary and team work of medicine, nursing, inhalation therapy and pulmonology professionals, among others, through a journey inside the human respiratory system. The pictorial work adds to the cultural heritage of INER, linked to art and architectural functionality.
The solidarity view and will of several creators who dedicated their work as a sign of admiration to front-line personnel who faced the challenge of caring for the lives of others and their own within INER motivated the Coordination of Art and Culture to promote a new opportunity for the dissemination of art and science.
Through a mural, they recognize the work of INER staff during the COVID-19 pandemic
– HEALTH Mexico (@SSalud_mx) July 30, 2023
The personal and professional challenges that this mural implied were successfully carried out with the support of all the areas that make up INER, at the initiative of the head of the Respiratory Emergency Unit, Cristóbal Guadarrama Pérez.
This artistic expression is the creation of the designer in Graphic Communication, David Rodríguez Santiago, who was part of the institute’s staff in the Emergency Unit during the pandemic, in addition to the collaboration of alumni graduated from the Faculty of Arts and Design of the National University Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Nayeli Maturano Hernández and César Sandoval Santiago.
The importance of hospital architecture
The dissemination of art and science was conceived from the creation of INER, since the design and construction of the then Huipulco Tuberculosis Sanatorium —Tlalpan, 1929— worked jointly with the Mexican architect José Villagrán García and the medical specialist Ismael Sew Villegas.
The original INER building is the oldest standing architectural work by the architect José Villagrán García. He was a passionate professional of the functionalist trend that amazed the world and Mexico, who became an expert in hospital architecture and a world reference in the field.
It should be noted that INER has an artistic space called “Las rejas del arte”, which is located at street level on Calzada de Tlalpan and served as an expressive emotional display of what this institution had to convey with legends such as “We were the intensive care from Mexico. This left a mark on our lives…”, written by the head of the Respiratory Emergency Unit.
The institute has an architecture that encourages artistic expression, it has a style of large pavilions, with long corridors and four-meter-high ceilings; galleries for patients covered with glass windows and Venetian blinds, as well as some architectural elements of the great American and European tuberculosis sanatoriums.
The National Institute of Respiratory Diseases is, by itself, a representation of the history of Mexico and the world, of the women and men of their time. Due to its iconic building in terms of hospital architecture, it ideally represents design in favor of health. Its aesthetic testimony, validity and adaptation over time have been published in international books and magazines.
In 2015, INER created the Coordination of Art and Culture, attached to the Department of Public Relations and Communication, with the primary objective of preserving and enriching the artistic and cultural heritage. With this program, artistic pieces have been rescued, restored, and relocated that are located in the main gardens of this National Institute of Health, in full view of the staff, patients, family members, and visitors; They are part of the institutional identity.
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