2024-02-01 18:00:45
There is mexican hospital that stands out from the rest for its surgical infrastructure. For patients who require some intervention, this is very useful information. Furthermore, it is a public hospital and has an extensive past, but do you know which one it is?
Sometimes there is a belief that only the private health It has enough infrastructure to have well-equipped units but that is not the case. Within the public sphere there are also examples of institutions that are examples to follow at the national level.
The Mexican hospital with the greatest surgical infrastructure
With this in mind, the General Hospital of Mexico “Eduardo Liceaga” It is classified as having the greatest surgical infrastructure in the country. It currently has 50 operating rooms. To understand their capacity, during 2023 they performed 30,181 surgical interventions and all of them were free for people without rights.
Mandatory procedures necessary to open a medical office
Other characteristics of the hospital are that it has a total of 83 specialties, such as critical medicine, obstetrics, oncology, geriatrics, pulmonology, neurology and neurosurgery, mental health, nephrology, bariatric surgery, cytopathology, spinal surgery, and palliative medicine, among others. which, in a historical process of professionalization, have been added to the services it provides.
Furthermore, it is a historic hospital because this 2024 marks 119 years of work in favor of people’s health without affiliation to other services.
He General Hospital of Mexico “Eduardo Liceaga” It is also recognized for having the largest infrastructure to perform primary diagnosis through ultrasound machines, X-rays, colposcopes, echocardiographs and electrocardiographs, and a high volume of surgical procedures.
Statistics of your hospital capacity
Regarding hospital capacity, the hospital has 1,192 installed beds, of which 808 are in the hospitalization area and 384 in transitional or provisional care. During 2023, 85,209 emergency services and 621,711 outpatient care were provided.
In addition, the hospital obtained first place in the number of publications, with 252 scientific publications in lines of research such as COVID-19, neoplasms, glucose metabolism disorders, metabolic syndrome and obesity, nephropathies and kidney transplant, diseases of the nervous system center and its manifestations.
Currently, 540 medical students are doing rotating internships; Likewise, 343 provide social service and 122 professional internships. Likewise, 850 Mexican residents and 166 foreigners are studying postgraduate studies.
Not everything is perfect
Despite everything mentioned, there are also some points against it. During the first days of 2024, the “Eduardo Liceaga” General Hospital of Mexico suffered a medical oxygen leak. Everything was generated in office 4 of the Medical Surgical Emergency Service.
Medical oxygen leak at the General Hospital of Mexico (VIDEO)
The unfortunate event occurred during the process of changing the hose from one oxygen intake to another. The plunger of the Plarre connection gave way, causing medical oxygen to leak.
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