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FMH Training in Valais Hospital Discover our FMH recognition and postgraduate trainings COVID-19 tests Online appointment Welcome to the Valais Hospital! Medical specialities Your search Location Central Institute Malévoz (Monthey) Martigny Saint-Amé Sierre Sion Spitalzentrum Oberwallis (SZO) Search Access The Back Centre Sion Microbiology Abuse Screening for HIV/AIDS Patients Your admission Your stay Our specialised consultations Visitors Visiting times Access and car parking General Information Professional Directory Sion…
Martigny hospital - Emergency Daytime: 7am to 7pm - Emergency service Telephone number 027 603 90 00 Paediatric emergencies are not dealt with at Martigny Hospital. Please go to Sion hospital or another nearby emergency centre. Outside the opening hours of the Martigny emergency room, call : 0848 200 300 Hospital emergency services available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week: Sion 027 603 46 00 Rennaz 058 773 21 12 Attendance and current situation Information Patient attendance is indicative only and may vary from the actual…
Health Unit for Migrant Asylum Seekers USMA The USMA was created in October 2023 within the ICH, at the request of the Public Health Service and the Social Action Service. The aim of this unit is to coordinate and guide the management of the health problems of asylum seekers arriving in the Valais. In practice, the USMA carries out entry health checks for people arriving from Ukraine, provides consultations in hostels and arranges vaccinations as required. Initially, it may take charge of some of the care, but in the long…
General Surgery and Visceral Surgery at Sion Hospital General surgery is the medical speciality which deals with diagnosing and treating a wide range of conditions. It can cover fields such as emergency surgery, traumatology, and the treatment of common conditions such as calculus of the urinary bladder, hernias or appendicitis, but also more specialised fields, such as visceral, vascular or thoracic surgery. This speciality acts as a ‘turntable’ between numerous other surgical activities in the hospital, involving…
Pain Management Centre The Valais Hospital has two pain clinics. One is based in Martigny and the other in Brig to cover both language regions. The range of services offered by each centre is similar. More details can be found on the web pages of the centres using the links below. Our care centers Brig (Obwerwallis) Read more Martigny (French-speaking Valais) Read more Organisation Martigny Spitalzentrum Oberwallis (Brig) Martigny Spitalzentrum Oberwallis (Brig) Centre Hospitalier du Valais Romand Martigny Av. de la Fusion…
Dietetics ospital dieticians belong to the Nursing and Medico-Technical Care Department and work transversally, upon request by other medical staff. They cooperate with the doctors, nurses, other care providers and with the Catering Department, in particular with the dietetic cooks. The main aim of hospital dietetics is to ensure that patients feed themselves or are fed. Due to their conditions and/or treatments, some patients do not eat very much, lose weight and therefore muscle mass, and suffer from undernutrition. This…
Sion Discharge Departures usually take place between 09:00 and 11:00. The date of your discharge will be decided on in consultation with your hospital doctor, who will send a report about your stay in the hospital to your referring doctor and, if necessary, will call him/her; you should then contact your referring doctor regarding the continuation of your treatment. If you are transferred to another hospital site, the hospital staff will inform your referring doctor. Before you leave the hospital Please ask the nurse to…
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…
Thoracic Surgery Thoracic surgery is a medical speciality which covers treatment and surgical interventions connected to diseases affecting the thoracic, pulmonary and mediastinal walls. Thoracic surgeons draw up the treatment plan in cooperation with any other specialities concerned (pneumology, oncology, radiology, radio-oncology and pathology) during weekly multidisciplinary meetings. Multidisciplinary treatment for some conditions, such as lung cancer (the most frequently fatal type of cancer throughout the world), can…
BOEM – Le patient au bon endroit au bon moment Dans le cadre de la stratégie d’amélioration continue du Centre Hospitalier du Valais Romand (CHVR), nous avons engagé une transformation progressive de notre organisation, centrée sur le « parcours patient ». Cette démarche prend forme notamment avec le projet BOEM (Le patient au bon endroit au bon moment). Cette initiative vise à renforcer la qualité de la prise en charge, à améliorer l’expérience des patient.e.s et à favoriser une collaboration fluide entre les service. Le…