Roque Sáenz Peña Hospital
Hospital in province of Santa Fe, Argentina / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Roque Sáenz Peña Hospital (in Spanish, Hospital Dr. Roque Sáenz Peña) is a public municipal hospital in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It serves as a secondary referral hospital for the South and Southwest Districts of the city.[1]
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Geography | |
Location | Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina |
Coordinates | 32.999237°S 60.646928°W / -32.999237; -60.646928 |
Organisation | |
Funding | Public hospital |
Type | Municipal |
History | |
Opened | 20 August 1923 |
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Lists | Hospitals in Argentina |
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The hospital is structured around three main areas:
- Children's health area: pediatrics, neonatology, pediatric ER
- Adults' area: several specialties, general ER
- Women's area: birthing center, gynaecology, tocogynaecologic ER
The hospital's labor ward serves an average of 1,800 annual births. This area has a programme for the promotion of breastfeeding, for which it received the award of Mother and Child-Friendly Hospital (Hospital Amigo de la Madre y el Niño) from UNICEF Argentina.[2]