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20/01/2023

Surgical Operations 2023: we continue to benefit children and adolescents throughout Chile

It has been 10 years since we started with our surgical area, and certainly this 2023 we could not stop. For this reason, to start this new year, we began in January with our Surgical Operations visiting with our team of volunteer specialists the beautiful city of Coyhaique .

 

Thus, on January 9 and 10, we carried out the first operation of the year together with the Regional Hospital of Coyhaique, performing high complexity surgeriesWe carried out the first operation of the year together with the Regional Hospital of Coyhaique, performing high complexity surgeries, working together with the children's nephrology polyclinic and the kinesiology area, benefiting 41 children, being able to give them a timely operation and prevent them from having a kidney disease. children, being able to give them an operation in time and prevent them from having a renal disease.

 

We thank our team of volunteer doctors, Dr. Bernardita Troncoso and Dr. Luis Bofil, our kinesiologists Belén Sánchez and Macarena Sola, and Constanza Olivares, nurse assistant director of health of the Corporation; as well as the team of local pilot doctors , Dr. Armando Velazco and Dr. Constanza Opazo, and our great friend and coordinating doctor on this occasion, Dr. Rodrigo Verdugo.

 

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