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Year of Start:

1975

Sector:

Medical Service and Foundation

Place:

Vice President of the Victoria Foundation Jean Navajas

Dr. Santos Platini

Medical graduate of La Plata University, in 1975 he accepted the invitation to form part of the Medical Service of Las Marias in charge of staff health and, since then, has marked a before and an after in the care of workers and their families.

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While home births were still practiced in the province of Buenos Aires, in Las Marias there was already a culture of hospital birth attended to by a medical professional, we learn. Platini y, beams with pride when talking about his greatest achievements in the Medical Service, where he led his organization and some innovative programs both for the era and the region. “From a free Pap smear program for workers’ wives, which some social works proclaimed, but did not always effectuate, to the comprehensive childcare program up to the first year of life, as well as the registration and identification of parasitoses of urban rural endemic families n workers, and the creation of the acoustic cabinet,” we tell. The standard of growth within the pediatric control program, subjected to review and evaluation by the Growth Department of the Garrahan Hospital in Buenos Aires, exceeds the common of Currents and is on par with the best health centers in the country.

“When I arrived at Las Marias there was already a great tradition of health education”

To this day, the Medical Service remains a key aspect in the care of the children of Las Marías workers. The human factor for the doctor is key: “every patient who comes to the office needs personal attention,” she assures. With the work of Dr. Platini and his team, all collaborators were able for the first time to have a comprehensive clinical history.

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About the activities in the Foundation, it highlights the work carried out in the promotion of values ​​for the Victoria School, for the Agro-Technical Institute, the Vocational Training Center and its cross-section with the criteria of the work in Las Marias. “One of Las Marias’ core values ​​is seriousness in the pursuit of quality and transparency,” he shares.

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