The works area of the future Hospital Día Oncógico de Concepción, located in the local Regional Hospital, was verified by the Minister of Public Health, María Teresa Barán, who highlighted the importance of improvements in the care of cancer patients in the region, as well as the decentralization plan. The director of the Incan, Raúl Doria, announced that he will be operational in three months, with medical personnel trained to care for patients.
The holder of the portfolio was accompanied by departmental authorities, of Vice Ministers of Health Santiago García Destéfano (Comprehensive Care for Health and Social Welfare) and José Ortellado (Rectory and Health Surveillance) and the Director General of the National Cancer Institute, Raúl Doria.
Doria, head of INCAN, announced that the Cancer Day Hospital will be operational within three months, with medical personnel trained to care for patients, whose demand is significant in the area and many cannot travel to INCAN to receive treatments, he added.
He also remarked that Minister Barán announced that a cooperation was agreed with the Tesãi Foundation in Itaipú for the program to strengthen early detection of breast cancer.
This agreement includes the acquisition of 32 mammograms that will be distributed throughout the country, of which two are for Concepción. He added that one will be delivered to the Día Hospital and that the team is a mammogram with tomosynthesis to be able to do surgery procedures, a highly complex biopsy; while the other digital mammographer is going to Horqueta, he reported.
The white staff of the Regional Hospital of Concepción stressed the importance for the department of the presence of the highest authorities of the Ministry of Health, since they consider that it is a full support of the portfolio to the region.
