The Parral Hospital has included astroscopic knee surgery among its services, which means resolving minimally invasive surgeries in the Parral Hospital ward itself that until now had to be referred to the Linares Base Hospital.
In this sense, Dr. José Jiménez, head of traumatology at the Parral Hospital, pointed out that “it is a minimally invasive surgery that allows us to resolve intra-articular pathologies in the knee, such as menisci and instabilities, among other pathologies. It is a surgical procedure that allows the knee joint to be observed and treated through small incisions, it is performed with an arthroscope, a tiny camera that is introduced into the joint through a small cut.”
Some of the benefits of incorporating this procedure into the Parral Hospital’s portfolio of services is that it allows us to reduce waiting lists of users with these pathologies who had to wait in Linares.
Likewise, it contemplates a much shorter recovery time, since being minimally invasive, the patient will be able to stand up according to pain tolerance and with the support of the rehabilitation team, thus returning to normal activities within a period of time. much more limited, returning the quality of life to the users.
Regarding the surgical progress of the Parral Hospital, Dr. Jiménez argues that “these patients were referred to the Linares hospital, with this service that we are incorporating, we are adding the San Javier Hospital and thus adding one more hospital to the Maule hospitals. South that may be providing this service to the population,” he noted.
Strengthening the Assistance Network of the Maule Health Service
Four hospitals are currently being built in the region to strengthen the Maule Health Service Care Network, of which three are of medium complexity and according to the Red Maule bidding project they come to strengthen each other, therefore the incorporation of This surgery at the Parral hospital strengthens the development pole in traumatology in medium complexity hospitals.
Currently, progress in the construction of the Parral Hospital is 63%, which is within the stipulated construction deadlines, with 12 specialties working in parallel to shape the hospital’s normalization project that will allow it to go from the current 7,500 meters. squares to 41 thousand square meters, delivering the quality standard that the communities of Retiro and Parral deserve.
