In this season of giving, the Calderón Guardia Blood Bank needs donations. The hospital will enable donations on Sundays, in the hopes of more people being able to come in.…
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Costa Rica Private Sector Vaccines for COVID
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2021/05/27Private companies are willing to purchase vaccines to protect workers from covid. A plan is already in the works after a group of companies started this conversation with the Ministry…
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Audit of Costa Rica Clinic That Paid People for Work Already Completed
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2021/01/10The Marcial Fallas Clinic serves more patients than many regional and peripheral hospitals do. This Centro de Atención Integral en Salud (CAIS) had a waiting list of 23,300 people in…
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Aesthetic Malpractice in Costa Rica
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2020/11/17Autopsies are still pending to find out whether malpractice was involved in two recent deaths following aesthetic procedures in private clinics. A 37-year-old teacher died during a liposuction procedure. After…
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Woman Dies After Cosmetic Surgery in Costa Rica
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2020/10/28Eleven people died in Costa Rica, from 2006 to 2015, from causes related to cosmetic surgeries. One case is still in court. On this October 12, a 27-year-old teacher, mother,…
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Hospital Workers in Costa Rica Quarantined Again
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2020/07/23For the third time in a month, hospital workers had to be quarantined because a patient failed to mention close contact with a person positive for covid-19. The obstetrics-Gynecology service…
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Latest Costa Rica Coronavirus Map
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2020/03/25Today the Ministry of Health updated a map that shows where the cases of the new coronavirus are in Costa Rica. The data on the map is given by canton,…
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More Things Closed in Costa Rica Due to Coronavirus
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2020/03/19Measures to stop the spread of the covid-19 virus are getting stricter by the day. As of today, gyms, sports centers, sports clubs for activities like karate and judo, and…