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Sleep medicine Sleep Clinic We spend roughly 30% of our lives sleeping. Sleep medicine can be beneficial when sleep is disturbed or when it doesn’t properly fulfil its role of giving us rest. Excessive fatigue, insomnia, constantly waking up at night, sleep apnoea, snoring, abnormal behaviour at night, jet lag and restless limb syndrome are some of the many conditions we deal with every day. The Sleep Clinic is certified by the Swiss Society of Sleep Research, Sleep Medicine and Chronobiology. The clinic is part of the…
Pneumology Department Upper Valais Hospital (SZO) At the Pneumology department of the Centre hospitalier du Haut-Valais on the Visp site, patients suffering from pneumological diseases benefit from a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient diagnostic and therapeutic services. Patients are offered outpatient consultation, treatment and care for lung diseases such as COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, smokers' lung), bronchial asthma, interstitial lung disease (ILD) and sarcoidosis. For specific issues such…
Internal Medicine Internal medicine treats patients suffering from medical afflictions which require extensive investigations and medical diagnosis. This speciality can be seen as being at the cross-over point between several other specialities and covers a wide range of afflictions; it is practised throughout the various sites of Valais Hospital. In 2011, the Internal Medicine Departments of Valais Hospital (Cantons of Valais romand and of Haut-Valais) registered just over 100,000 days of hospitalisation. The average length…