Sion Hospital offers a comprehensive range of consultations and specialist programmes.
Paediatric Department Sion Hospital
The paediatrics department of the Valais Hospital for French-speaking Valais is located in Sion. Within the Sion Hospital, paediatrics and paediatric surgery work very closely together: the ‘Children's Centre’.
The general paediatrics department has the following responsibilities:
- to care for children from birth to the age of 16
- to collaborate with and provide postgraduate training for paediatricians
- to collaborate with specialists from university hospitals.
The CHVR paediatrics department treats all childhood illnesses and accidents from birth to adolescence. It is organised into several sectors and offers various consultations and specialised programmes in addition to patient care.
The paediatrics department consists of four units.
Telephone numbers and opening hours
| Secretariat (cases) | Monday to Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. | 027 603 40 31 |
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| Specialist consultation secretariat | Monday-Tuesday and Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. | 027 603 42 18 |
| Neuropaediatrics secretariat | Monday-Tuesday and Thursday-Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. | 027 603 41 64 |
| Paediatric emergencies | open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week | 0848 200 300, For life-threatening emergencies: call 144. |
Organisation
Medical and nursing team
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Allergologie pédiatrique Professeur Philippe Eigenmann Dre Estefanía Hernández García Cardiologie pédiatrique Professeure Nicole Sekarski (CHUV) Docteur Julie Wacker Endocrinologie pédiatrique Docteur Franziska Phan-Hug Gastroentérologie Docteur Alexa Giroud-Rivier Génétique Docteur Armand Bottani Docteur Claudine Rieubland Hématologie-oncologie pédiatrique Docteure Laura Crosazzo Franscini Mucoviscidose Docteur Anne Mornand Néphrologie pédiatrique Professeure Paloma Parvex Ophtalmologie pédiatrique Docteur Radu Boldea Orthopédie pédiatrique Professeur Pierre-Yves Zambelli (CHUV) Orthopédie pédiatrique Professeur Dimitri Ceroni (HUG) Pneumologie pédiatrique Docteure Isabelle Ruchonnet-Métrailler (HUG) Rhumatologie pédiatrique Docteure Aikaterini Koryllou (CHUV) Us Hanches Docteure Mirela Jankovic
Documents
- Urgences pédiatriques de l’hôpital de Sion
- Urgências pediátricas do hospital de sion
- Je consulte aux urgences pédiatriques, que va-t-il se passer ?
- Bonjour Beni
- Informations pour les adolescents admis pour un séjour en pédiatrie
- Informations pour les enfants admis pour un séjour en pédiatrie
- Unité de néonatologie
Training and research
The paediatrics department at the Valais Romand Hospital Centre has received several FMH accreditations (category B, 3 years) for general paediatrics and advanced training in paediatric emergency medicine (category B, 6 months). These are in addition to the existing accreditation in neonatology (category B, also 6 months, with accreditation as a type 2b neonatal intensive care unit).
Associations and partners
Fondation Théodora
Children in hospital have been receiving visits from the Dream Doctors every Thursday since February 1994.
For more information: www.theodora.org
Pinceaux magiques
The association ‘Pinceaux magiques’ (Magic Brushes) offers silk painting activities to children suffering from chronic illnesses or who have to stay in hospital for long periods.
For more information: www.pinceauxmagiques.ch
Chariot Magique
It is primarily a playful, relational and sometimes therapeutic form of support, but also a time for meeting, sharing, expressing oneself, being present and listening at regular intervals with the sick child and their parents.
For more information: www.chariotmagique.ch