translated from Spanish: Garrahan Hospital turns 33 today

The Hospital “Dr. Juan. Fr. Garrahan” is now 33 years old since its opening in 1987. Over more than three decades of history, the Highly Complex Hospital received 35 percent of the country’s childhood cancer cases and performed 50 percent of pediatric transplants and more than 12,000 surgeries, with an annual average of 608,000 consultations.

Since he began quarantine because of coronavirus, the center that specializes in pediatric, public and free health, performed 34 transplants and treated more than 10,000 emergencies, the institution reported Tuesday. In addition, it is the only hospital in the country to have a Regional Hemotherapy Center with 100 percent voluntary blood donations, during the pandemic, 2,776 blood and platelet donations were collected.
“The Garrahan celebrates its 33 years in a very special circumstance, as is this pandemic, because from March we made adjustments in our preparation, we continue to attend 35% of child ontological pathology and had to learn how this new disease was going to influence them,” Arrigoni said on Tuesday in the daily report by Covid-19 of the Ministry of Health.

Despite the covid-19 context, the hospital was able to perform 34 transplants, received nearly 51,000 consultations and treated more than 10,000 emergencies, according to an official statement. It also has Casa Garrahan which is “A home away from home” and hosts children with their mothers who are in outpatient treatments and who reside more than 100 kilometers from the city of Buenos Aires and are cared for in the Hospitals Elizalde, Garrahan and Gutiérrez. Today 21,500 small ones have been housed.

Original source in Spanish