Traumas are not using protective helmet

The 50 per cent of the polytrauma patients who come to the Ney Arias Lora hospital present trauma brain injury by not using the protective helmet for motorcyclists, yesterday unveiled its director, Félix Hernández.

Recalled that the hospital serves an average of 110 patients journals in the area of emergency, of which 70% are polytrauma injuries of transit, and that amount 50% suffer from cranial trauma, which explains the high demand that have specialized in Traumatology hospital intensive care units.

Hernandez offered those details to show the Director of LISTÍN DIARIO, Miguel Franjul, different service areas of the hospital, located on the premises of health city, in Santo Domingo Norte, during a visit to make to that Centre where Besides knowing its functioning heard the views of patients admitted and ambulatory. Franjul was accompanied from the u000aAssistant Director, Fabio Cabral.

The director of the hospital, who was accompanied by the Deputy Director of education Jaime Fernández, reported that the Centre will become a unit of Neurotrauma, and that sponsor-strategic partners is looking to give opening to the burns unit, which will be the Center, with a capacity of 10 beds.

Also, every week is practiced between two and three knee replacements; they have placed around 100 hip prosthesis, and performed an average of daily herniated disc surgery. Hernandez stressed that in one year and five months which have working, the hospital has made more than 3,000 surgeries.

Centre has 136 medical specialists. It was further reported that the hospital is working to become a teaching centre for the training of Orthopedics and traumatologists, surgeons, as well as the formation of a volunteer fact is assuming enthusiastically Dona Elizabeth, widow of the u000aDr. Ney Arias Lora, neurosurgeon in whose honour was named the facility.

Boasts a 100 beds available at the current moment, although there is capacity for another similar amount.

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