Sion Hospital Paediatric Department

The paediatric department of Valais Hospital is located in Sion. It cares for children from birth through to the end of their 16th year, and in some cases even through to their 18th year. Premature babies are cared for when they have reached an age of 32 weeks and a weight of 1250 grams.

The Paediatric Department is structured into three divisions:

      The Paediatric Department is structured into three divisions:

    • A neonatology division
    • A division for outpatient treatment, emergency consultations and specialised consultations
    • A hospitalisation division.

    Parents may remain with their child throughout his/her stay in hospital.

    • Accommodation for mothers when care is being provided to hospitalised new-born babies (Kangaroo room)
    • Day clinic (outpatient hospital treatments, specific paediatric investigations and outpatient operations).

    Consultations

    • Paediatric Surgery Specialist Consultations

      Every day:

      • Pr Bernard Genin: +41 (0)27 603 46 52
      • Dr Emanuel Alexe: +41 (0)227 603 46 50

    • Practical Information regarding various Consultations

      • General paediatrics: +41 27 603 41 41
      • Specialist consultations: +41 27 603 42 18

    Specialist paediatric consultations are organised at regular intervals in the medico-surgical paediatric department, in cooperation with university specialists

    • Pediatric endocrinology
      Dr Franziska Phan Hug
       
    • Pediatric Allergology
      Collaboration with the ICH and the HUG - Dr Philippe Eigenmann, Dr Estefania Hernandez Garcia
       
    • Pediatric Cardiology
      Collaboration with the CHUV - Prof. Nicole Sekarski
      Collaboration with the HUG - Pr. Maurice Beghetti
       
    • Ultrasound scan of the hips
      Dr Michel Russo, Dr Juan Llor
       
    • Medical genetics
      Collaboration with ICH - Dr Claudine Rieubland
       
    • Pediatric Gastroenterology
      Collaboration with HRC - Dr Alexa Giroud-Rivier
       
    • Sports medicine
      CHVR - Paediatric surgery - Dr Pascal Ramseyer
       
    • Pediatric Nephrology
      Collaboration with the Unité universitaire romande de néphrologie HUG / CHUV - Dr Paloma Parvex
       
    • Paediatric onco-haematology
      Collaboration with the CHUV - Dr Laura Cosazzo
       
    • Paediatric Orthopaedics
      Collaboration with the CHUV - Prof. Yves Zambelli
      Collaboration with the HUG - Dr Dimitri Ceroni
      CHVR - Paediatric surgery - Dr Pascal Ramseyer
       
    • Pediatric pneumology
      Collaboration with the HUG - Prof. Constance Barazzone Argiroffo
      Cystic fibrosis: Collaboration with the HUG - Dr Anne Mornand
       
    • Pediatric rheumatology
      Collaboration with the CHUV - Prof. Michaël Hofer

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