Córdoba Avenue at 2,300. On that avenue, one of the busiest in the Buenos aires citya gigantic building with the paint on its walls corroded by the passage of time houses one of the best public hospitals in Latin America: the clinic hospital. At least that’s how it appears from a ranking prepared by global Health Intelligence, a health research company.
The Hospital de Clínicas bears the name of José de San Martín and depends on the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). It is the place where graduates of the Faculty of Medicine learn and take their first steps in healing people’s health.
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There, more than 360,000 consultations are attended per year and also more than 8 thousand surgeries are performed.
There are more than 1,500 UBA students who attend to carry out internships in 30 chairs of Medical Sciences, Pharmacy and Biochemistry that pass through the corridors and rooms of the building located on the border between Balvanera and Recoleta.
The distinction maintains that it is the hospital “best equipped for advanced diagnostic imaging and I got the second place among all the hospitals and the first among the public to have the largest infrastructure for a high volume of procedures, with 30 operating rooms”.
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“These recognitions place us as one of the best public hospitals in the country. In addition to these categories that highlight our infrastructure, our team of professionals deserves to be distinguished, one of the most prestigious in the entire country, the research they carry out and the entire non-medical and non-teaching team that makes this level of care possible,” said a telam marcelo meloDirector of the Hospital de Clínicas.
The other Argentine hospitals in the ranking
The same list includes other health functions in Argentina. Son The Néstor Kirchner Crossing, the Garrahan, the Posadas Hospital, the Emilio Vidal Abal de Córdoba and the Ramón Carrillo from the province of San Luis, which were part of the list called Hospirank.
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There, in the category that values the best infrastructure for a high volume of procedures, along with the Buenos Aires Clinics, they chose Garrahan and Ramón Carrillo, from Jauna Koslay, Saint Louis. On the other hand, El Cruce Néstor Kirchner, located in Florencio Varela.
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