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Occupational Medicine Occupational medicine is essentially a preventive speciality. It caters to all of the staff in Valais Hospital. The Occupational Medicine Department is located in the Central Institute of hospitals. The application of legal requirements and recommendations in terms of occupational health requires that any professional risks that are specific to a sector be identified beforehand, the aim being to ensure safety at work and to preserve the health of employees. To this end, the Occupational Health…
Transfusion medicine The mission of the Transfusion Medicine Department, managed in collaboration with the Red Cross Regional blood transfusion centre, is to ensure safety in the transfusion chain within the establishments of the Hôpital du Valais. It fulfils laboratory (immuno-haematology) and haemovigillance tasks, and seeks to prevent complications associated with the administration of blood products, in particular by guaranteeing their traceability and through involvement in the training of healthcare professionals in…
Forensic medicine At the request of the judicial authorities, the Forensic Medicine Unit, located at the Central Institute, carries out forensic examinations to help solve criminal or civil investigations. Often associated with simple autopsies, forensic medicine is in fact the interface between medicine and justice. Examinations of corpses, expert opinions on living persons and expert opinions on files are the main activities of the department. Without forgetting the importance of relations with relatives, often the most…
Infectious Diseases All of the fields connected to infectious diseases, i.e. diseases caused by micro-organisms such as bacteria, viruses, parasites or yeasts, are concentrated within the Infectious Diseases Department, which is based in the Central Institute of hospitals. This department brings together different areas of activity for patients, doctors, health institutes and the state: Medical infectiology consultations are carried out by doctors who are FMH specialists in infectiology. The consultations are for outpatients…
Clinical Immunology and Allergology The Immunology-Allergology Department carries out analyses and provides clinical advice during the treatment of diseases connected to the body’s immune system. This department is based in the Central Institute of hospitals and incorporates two main types of activity: Clinical activity, as part of which specialists assess patients presenting signs of diseases connected to the body’s defence mechanisms during hospital or outpatient consultations. These assessments allow the doctors to…
Pathology / Cytology The histocytopathology department examines tissue/histological samples (biopsies, resections and surgical parts, etc.) as well as cytological samples (smears, cytopunctions, body fluids, etc.) from the hospital and outpatient sectors of the French-speaking Valais, the Upper Valais and the Riviera-Chablais region, offering a complete range of services, from outpatient or inpatient diagnosis to the examination of surgical parts. The team is made up of a dozen pathologists and several doctors in training /…
Haematology Haematology is the medical speciality devoted to the study of the blood. The Valais Hospital Haematology Department is based in the Central Institute, and its medical and technical teams handle blood diseases from the laboratory to the clinic. Its main aim is to provide diagnostic and clinical care for patients suffering from blood diseases in different fields. These include, specifically, general haematology (anaemia, anomalies of the various blood cells), cancers of the blood (leukaemia, lymphoma, multiple…
Brig Hospital Radiology Department The radiology department of the Centre Hospitalier du Haut-Valais offers the full range of radiodiagnostic examinations, percutaneous interventional techniques and therapies, as well as all puncture and drainage treatment using conventional and modern digital radiological technologies, radioscopy, ultrasound, computed tomography, MRI and nuclear medicine. Range of Examinations Conventional Radiology Ultrasound examinations Radioscopy Computed Tomography (80 Slices) Magnetic Resonance…
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Il est aujourd’hui reconnu que l’art, sous ses différentes formes, joue un rôle important dans la santé. Comme le souligne le prof. Eric Bonvin, « la culture est sans doute le meilleur liant social, car elle permet aux patients de rester en lien avec la communauté durant l’épreuve de la maladie ». Cette année, pour la troisième année consécutive, l’Hôpital du Valais est ravi de renouveler son partenariat avec l’association des Concerts du cœur. Tout au long de l’année, des musiciens itinérants se déplacent de chambre en…