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Valais Hospital
Chronic Wounds Valais Hospital provides referring doctors and independent carers with specialist consultations to help with caring for wounds that are healing slowly or with difficulty. These chronic wounds include those caused by a surgical operation, ulcers of venous or mixed origin, arteriovenous wounds, sloughs and diabetic feet. Doctors and nurses specialised in the various fields of plastic surgery, vascular surgery, orthopaedics, angiology and wound treatment provide advice, recommendations, suggestions and, if…
Physiotherapy Physiotherapy is a specialist practice aimed at combating pain and promoting movement and mobility. The procedures offered by physiotherapists allow us to treat and/or correct the loss or degradation of functions and mobility (disease, accident and/or poor posture) in an opportune and targeted manner. These professionals address their patients’ complaints in the most straightforward way, and identify and clarify the contextual factors related to them. They offer each patient a tailor-made solution.…
Hospital Pharmacy The main purpose of all pharmaceutical activity at the hospital is to ensure that effective, appropriate and economical medication is provided. Within Valais Hospital, the main task of the Pharmacy Department of the Central Institute of hospitals is thus to provide an appropriate assortment of medicines for hospitalised patients. The hospital pharmacists and specialists from the various medical disciplines work together to draw up a list of medicines specific to Valais Hospital. The criteria of choice for…
Brig / Visp Ophthalmology Ophthalmology is the medical speciality devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of all conditions affecting the eyeball, tear ducts and eyelids. Outpatient consultations and treatment account for most of the activity involving this speciality. It is possible to provide numerous forms of treatment during outpatient consultations, such as laser treatment of the retina or of a glaucoma. In the Canton of Haut-Valais, patients are treated by experienced ophthalmologists who carry out operations at Brig…
Orthopaedics Department at Martigny Hospital The Orthopaedics Centre for the Canton of Valais romand is located in Martigny Hospital, which provides specialist consultations and the majority of operations. There is also an orthopaedic branch in Sion. For the Canton of Haut-Valais, the Orthopaedic Centre is based in Brig. Martigny can provide the following specialist consultations and areas of competence in orthopaedics: Shoulder Hip and knee for degenerative diseases such as arthritis Lesions of knee ligaments Foot surgery…
Sion Hospital Orthopaedics Department In the field of orthopaedics, the Orthopaedics Centre for the Canton of Valais romand is located in Martigny Hospital, which provides the majority of consultations and operations. There is also an orthopaedic branch in Sion, with general consultations provided by senior doctors. Medical consultation Shoulder, elbow (Martigny) Shoulder, elbow (Sierre) Knee Hip Ankle, foot, pediatrics Organisation Martigny Centre Hospitalier du Valais Romand Martigny Av. de la Fusion 27, 1920 Martigny…
Ophthalmology Ophthalmology is the medical speciality devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of all conditions affecting the eyeball, tear ducts and eyelids. Outpatient consultations and treatment account for most of the activity involving this speciality. It is possible to provide numerous forms of treatment during outpatient consultations, such as laser treatment of the retina or of a glaucoma. In some cases, surgical interventions are necessary, as in the treatment of cataracts, which are part of the normal ageing process…
Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine Tropical medicine and travel medicine aim to prevent and treat diseases connected to travelling, in particular infectious diseases. This activity is integrated into the Infectious Diseases Department of the Central Institute of hospitals. As well as dealing with travel medicine, this department brings together all of the fields connected to infectious diseases: medical consultations in infectiology, microbiology, the prevention and control of infection (or hospital hygiene or hospital…
Martigny What is palliative care? Palliative care provides practical support for individuals suffering from incurable progressive chronic diseases, from diagnosis through to the end of their lives. This care provides relief from troublesome symptoms such as pain, digestive problems, nausea and breathing difficulties. Palliative care also provides relief from psychological suffering such as anxiety and depression. It also offers support in cases of isolation or of family conflicts. Organising palliative care requires…
Penitentiary Medicine The Penitentiary Medicine Department provides outpatient treatment, prevention and liaison services and hospital-type treatment if the clinical situation requires it (hunger strike, treatment prescribed, suicide risk). It draws on medical, psychiatric and nursing resources which are equivalent to those provided to the rest of the population. It consists of intermediate care, provided daily to adult and under-age prisoners in the Canton of Valais. This includes admission, medico-nursing follow-ups,…