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Recuerdo histórico del antiguo Servicio de Infecciosos del Hospital de Niños Manuel Arriarán

2008; SciELO; Volume: 25; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4067/s0716-10182008000400012

ISSN

0717-6341

Autores

Enrique Laval R,

Tópico(s)

Ethics and bioethics in healthcare

Resumo

Measles and pertussis epidemics that occurred in Chile at the beginning of XX Century definitively motivated Government authorities to put up hospitals dedicated to infancy attendance.At first it was the hospital settled at Matucana Street (Roberto del Río) and afterwards since 1913, the Manuel Arriarán Hospital in the southern-east districts of Santiago.In this last one it was located the first Infectious Diseases ward organized in Chile, opened in 1922 and built according to most recent isolation and aseptic technics, projected by the proper Sub-Administrator of Manuel Arriarán Hospital, Professor Alejandro del Río MD, taking place early to the system that years later should be implemented at the Claude

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