Hospital Alemán Nicaragüense

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Hospital Alemán Nicaragüense
Sponsorship Ministry of Health (MINSA)
place Managua
Country Nicaragua
Coordinates 12 ° 8 '57 "  N , 86 ° 12' 58"  W Coordinates: 12 ° 8 '57 "  N , 86 ° 12' 58"  W.
Director Maribel Hernández Muñoz
Care level Standard supply
beds 317 beds (as of end of 2017)
Employee approx. 993 (as of 2017)
areas of expertise 6th
founding 1985
Website
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The Hospital Alemán-Nicaragüense (German-Nicaraguan Hospital, HAN for short) is a teaching hospital in the Xolotlán district in northern Managua , the capital of Nicaragua . It sees itself as a primary care hospital .

The Alemán-Nicaragüense Hospital today

An estimated 520,000 people live in the catchment area of ​​the HAN, 90% of whom live below the poverty line. Treatment in the only hospital in the district has been free of charge for patients since 2007. The HAN currently has 240 beds and employs around 700 people (as of 2010). In addition, it offers space for around 400 medical students and prospective specialists from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua (UNAN) as well as a further 100 trainees of the medical staff, such as nurses, technicians and pharmacy assistants. The HAN provides outpatient and inpatient treatment in the fields of general medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics , neonatology , general surgery and obstetrics. In addition, it has an intensive care unit, a pharmacy, an X-ray department, a laboratory, a pathology department and physiotherapy .

In March 2020, the HAN was declared the reference center in the capital for the treatment of Covid-19 patients.

According to estimates by Solidarity Service International eV , around 156,000 births, 151,000 surgical interventions and over 2.21 million outpatients were cared for during the 32-year history of the hospital.

history

The Hospital Alemán-Nicaragüense in 1985 as Hospital Carlos Marx founded and is considered one of the greatest solidarity projects of the GDR . It was supported materially and personally. The GDR sent doctors, nurses, technicians and interpreters to Nicaragua. Donations from the Free German Trade Union Federation , the National Front and church organizations in the GDR project fund financed the construction and the delivery of medicines. Over the years, the initially used tents and surgical containers were gradually replaced by prefabricated bungalows and, from 1988, by massive houses. In the meantime, around 70 German doctors, medical-technical assistants , nurses, physiotherapists , interpreters and technicians worked together with the domestic employees.

After the German reunification , the continued existence of the hospital was considered uncertain. The government of the Federal Republic of Germany temporarily supported the hospital. However, they advocated greater involvement in the local health system. In 1993 it was officially renamed “Hospital Alemán Nicaragüense” (HAN). In 1998 the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health took over the former GDR project. Since then, there has been no more government support from the German side for the project.

Against the background of its 20th anniversary, 35 former German employees traveled to Nicaragua and visited the hospital. Many of them organized themselves in the “Friends of HAN” support group of Solidarity Service International eV (SODI) and have since supported the hospital on a private level together with other interested parties, which lacks modern equipment. In order to improve intensive medical care, the HAN, the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health and the SODI began working in March 2008 to build a six-bed intensive care unit . The station was put into operation about a year later. Much of the medical equipment had been donated to SODI. Specialists from Germany traveled specifically to train the staff on site.

Directors

  • Johannes Gessner (July to December 1985)
  • Hermann Schaller (December 1985 to July 1989)
  • Kurt Lobodasch (July 1989 to 1992)
  • Freddy Meynard Mejia (1992 to 1997, first Nicaraguan director)
  • Norbert Krüger (GTZ project manager)
  • Elias Corea Fonseca (1997 to 1999)
  • Isabel Vanesa Rivera Úbeda (1999 to 2001)
  • José Noel Somarriba Agüero (2001 to 2003)
  • Abraham Villanueva (2003 to 2007)
  • Alfredo Borge Palacios (2007 to 2010)
  • Marilyn Carrillo (2010 to 2012)
  • Xinia Saballos Medal (since 2012 to 2016)
  • Maribel Hernández Muñoz (since 2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christian Klemm: Army tents were the beginning - the "Carlos Marx" hospital in Managua, once built by the GDR, still exists today. In: New Germany . February 6, 2010, accessed April 7, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Hospital Alemán celebra 25 años. In: LaPrensa.com.ni. August 7, 2010, Retrieved April 6, 2011 (Spanish).
  3. ^ A b German-Nicaraguan Hospital in Managua. In: SODI, Solidarity Service International eV Accessed on February 27, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Estos son los hospitales públicos que en Nicaragua ya están identificados para atender el coronavirus. In: LaPrensa.com.ni. March 18, 2020, accessed May 12, 2020 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ http : // latein Amerika-nachrichten.de/?aaartikel=dr-carlos-marx-in-nicaragua (personal experience report from an interpreter)
  6. ↑ a b c History of the German - Nicaraguan Hospital (HAN). In: SODI, Solidarity Service International eV Archived from the original on January 6, 2011 ; Retrieved April 6, 2011 .