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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.…
Accessible en tout temps, cette ligne téléphonique oriente les appelants vers le service le plus approprié à leur situation. Il leur permet ainsi d’être mis en relation avec un médecin pour une consultation par téléphone ou d’atteindre les lignes d’urgences spécifiques (urgences dentaires, urgences psychiatriques ou pharmacie de garde). Le canton du Valais et la Société médicale du Valais (SMVS) poursuivent leurs efforts pour faciliter l’accès aux prestations médicales appropriées et désengorger les services d’urgence des…
Il concerne chaque année 6'000 suisses, dont 54% ont plus de 70 ans. La population âgée étant très hétérogène, garantir une prise en charge adaptée reste un véritable défi. Dans ce contexte, le Service de médecine nucléaire du Centre Hospitalier du Valais Romand convie les médecins et le personnel soignant concernés du canton à la 1re journée valaisanne de la prostate du jeudi 19 octobre 2017. Une formation continue axée sur la prise en charge du patient atteint d’un cancer de la prostate avec les moyens diagnostiques et…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Angiology Vascular medicine, also known as ‘angiology’, is the medical speciality which deals with arterial, venous and lymphatic diseases affecting the human body as a whole. Angiology allows for enhanced clinical diagnosis thanks to non-invasive functional vascular explorations (without any breaking of tissue). Its aim is to confirm cases of arterial and/or venous impairment. It represents part of a diagnostic and therapeutic medical approach, and also plays a role in the preventive care and monitoring of patients who are…
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…