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Infection Prevention and Control (Hospital Hygiene or Epidemiology) Infection prevention and control (IPC or hospital hygiene or hospital epidemiology) covers all activities aimed at combating infections that have been acquired during care (so-called nosocomial infections). These activities are integrated into the Infectious Diseases Department of the Central Institute of hospitals, which brings together, within ICP, all the fields connected to infectious diseases: medical infectiology consultations, microbiology, travel…
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…
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…
Obstetrics and Gynaecology Sion Gynaecology is the medico-surgical speciality devoted to the physiology of and conditions affecting the female genital system. Obstetrics is a medico-surgical speciality connected to pregnancy and labour. The main practitioners of this speciality are midwives and doctors. Bringing these two specialities together allows for holistic care to be provided to women during their lives. The Valais Hospital Obstetrics and Gynaecology Departments are located in Sion for the Valais romand region and in…
Gynaecology / Obstetrics Visp Gynaecology is the medico-surgical speciality devoted to the physiology of and conditions affecting the female genital system. Obstetrics is a medico-surgical speciality connected to pregnancy and labour. The main practitioners of this speciality are midwives and doctors. Bringing these two specialities together allows for holistic care to be provided to women during their lives. The Valais Hospital Obstetrics and Gynaecology Departments are located in Visp for the Haut-Valais region.…
Obstetrics and Gynaecology Gynaecology is the medico-surgical speciality devoted to the physiology of and conditions affecting the female genital system. Obstetrics is a medico-surgical speciality connected to pregnancy and labour. The main practitioners of this speciality are midwives and doctors. Bringing these two specialities together allows for holistic care to be provided to women during their lives. The Valais Hospital Obstetrics and Gynaecology Departments are located in Sion for the Valais romand region and in Visp…
Geriatrics Geriatrics is the field of medicine devoted to the needs of elderly people. It covers the clinical, preventive and social aspects of the diseases suffered by elderly people, as well as their rehabilitation. This field of medicine provides interdisciplinary services which include the investigation and general and specific assessment of the somatic, functional, psychological and environmental problems faced by the patient. Beyond this assessment, geriatric care can take the form of various treatment programmes,…
Medical Genetics The main contribution that medical genetics makes to the work of a general practitioner is in the identification and characterisation of the role of genetic variations and mutations relating to the causes of several hundred diseases. The Medical Genetics Department of the Central Institute of hospitals carries out laboratory analyses and provides specialist medical advice. There are three categories of diseases which arise mainly on account of genetic factors: Monogenic diseases, in which an anomaly in a…
Occupational Therapy Occupational therapy aims to help people of any age who are temporarily or permanently limited in terms of their living and work skills by a somatic or mental disability, to recover the greatest possible autonomy in their personal, social and professional lives. This therapy takes into account day-to-day movements and activities with the aim of developing facilitation strategies tailored to each individual’s resources. Its personal and social aspects, and the therapist’s listening skills are very…
Gastroenterology Gastroenterology is the medical speciality concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of all diseases of the digestive system, which includes not only organs such as the oesophagus, the stomach, the small intestine, the large intestine, the rectum and the anus, but also digestive glands such as the liver, the bile ducts and the pancreas. Patients suffering from digestive afflictions can be treated by Valais Hospital gastroenterologists on the Sion, Sierre and Martigny sites for the Valais romand region and…