University of the patient at the General Hospital of Mexico

Mexico, 3 July. The General Hospital of Mexico "Dr. Eduardo Liceaga" is the only health institution in Mexico that has the Universidad del Paciente, which aims to educate the person about his illness and thereby reduce complications and hospitalizations. [19659002MedicalDirectoroftheHospitalLeticiaLinoPeraasulignheresultsofthisprogrammenilyasixedans

In a statement from the Ministry of Health, it was reported that eight pathologies are currently being monitored in this university. of which 13,879 patients were trained in 2017.

He explained that everything that is taught at the University of the Patient is patient-oriented, so that he knows the care that he has to have and the importance of therapeutic attachment for the control of

He mentioned that having a mentally informed patient helps to implement preventive measures within its core family and its social environment.

Lino Pérez su noted that at present, he is educating patients with rheumatoid arthritis, acquired immunodeficiency virus (HIV), kidney transplant, kidney disease, chronic insufficiency, diabetes and obesity, among others.

Training lasts from three to six months. go one day a week, so that a multidisciplinary team of specialists can provide information. Later, they enter a workshop where they interact and put the knowledge into practice, he added.

He described that they were also taught the importance of taking their pharmacological treatments to the letter and identifying the warning signs.

For example, he mentioned that the rheumatologist gives the floor to the group of rheumatoid arthritis, but also the orthopedist informs about the possibilities of surgery, prosthesis and alignment of the joints.

Then, he said, intervenes the professional physiotherapy, which teaches patients the care they should have their joints during their daily activities.

Lino Pérez warned that in the face of the problem of childhood obesity in the country, it was decided to include in the program of the University of the Patient this suffering, by what is worked in the design of a digital program so that children can exercise at home, because the support of the family gives better results.