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Valais Hospital
L’Hôpital du Valais offre aux médecins traitants et aux soignants indépendants une consultation spécialisée pour la prise en charge des plaies à cicatrisation difficile ou retardée. Parmi ces plaies chroniques figurent celles résultant d’une opération chirurgicale, les ulcères d’origine veineuse ou mixte, artérioveineuse, les escarres et les pieds diabétiques. Des médecins ainsi que des infirmières spécialisées dans les différents domaines que sont la chirurgie plastique, la chirurgie vasculaire, l’orthopédie, l’angiologie…
Patrick Berclaz has been employed by the technical department in Sion Hospital for 5½ years, and smiles when he talks about his first few weeks of work: “For the first two months, I was on the verge of giving up,” he remembers. “The hospital environment wasn’t really my thing. I couldn’t bear the smell of the hospital, maybe because of my childhood, during which I had several long stays in hospital. But I didn’t think I would find it so difficult to adapt.” Today, this difficult early period has been forgotten, and the…
Alzheimer’s Disease – Patient Story Odette and Roger live in Savièse, and have a good laugh when you remind them of their past lives, which you can imagine were eventful. At 91 and 86 years old respectively, they have been married for 65 years and have had five children. One day, “our family doctor noticed something and sent Odette to see a neurologist,” remembers Roger. A few consultations later, they had their verdict: Odette has Alzheimer’s disease. “I don’t remember what we thought at the time,” he admits. “But anyway,…
Alzheimer’s Disease – Mr and Mrs Fardel’s Story Four children, a painting company, around twenty heads of cattle with ‘thirty bells’ won at cow fights, a passion for the mountains and travel, vineyards and endless amounts of work to do. Marcel Fardel, from Ayen, is hyperactive. This didn’t prevent him, a few years ago, from becoming “difficult,” remembers his wife Berthe. “He would get lost, couldn’t find roads that he knew well,” she explains. “One day, he even had an accident without remembering what had happened. He…
“Devoting some time to the patient often saves you from having to administer a pill against headache,” remarks Myrtha Courtion, a nurse in Visp in the Medicine Department of the Centre hospitalier du Haut-Valais, with a big smile. She chose this job over twenty years ago because she wanted this privileged contact with patients. “Actually, when I was younger, I wanted to be a nanny,” she remembers. “But you had to go to Lucerne for the training, and I was worried I would miss home…” Rather than devote herself to infants, she…
Matthieu de Riedmatten, Senior Registrar in Intensive Care at Sion Hospital In intensive care, “we are here first of all to keep patients alive by supporting their various organs, and then to initiate the healing process as far as possible. And in order to do this, we also depend on specialists from all the departments in the hospital.” Just like his colleagues in the Intensive Care Unit at Valais Hospital in Sion, Senior Registrar Matthieu de Riedmatten is at the heart of all of the cooperation that is necessary to ensure…
The Stroke - Mrs Jeannette Bourban’s Story “I was in the middle of making coffee and I fell down right there, in front of the sideboard.” On a Monday morning at the start of May 2012, Jeannette Bourban suffered a stroke at her home in Haute-Nendaz. “It didn’t hurt and I couldn’t feel anything in particular, I think I didn’t even completely lose consciousness. I could hear my husband calling the doctor. He was convinced I was having a heart attack, because he had had one 30 years ago.” There definitely was a problem, but it…