We all wondered what would happen when a man in Calderón Guardia Hospital was found to have a super resistant fungus. Questions about who he came in contact with held…
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The National Children’s Hospital is at 100% occupancy due to respiratory viruses. Two children have died of influenza and the authorities are on the alert for an increase in respiratory…
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Costa Rica Hospital Isolates a Patient Carrying Dangerous Fungus
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2019/06/12The Calderón Guardia hospital has isolated a patient carrying a dangerous fungus. Protocols have been activated for disinfection of areas the patient was in as to not put other patients…
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Costa Rica Creates First Microcontroller for Medical Applications
by admin 2019/05/08The DCILab of the Electronic Engineering School at the Technological Institute of Costa Rica (TEC by its Spanish acronym), has created the first RISC, 32-bit microcontroller completely designed and developed in Costa Rica,…
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Costa Rica’s CCSS & a Hearing Aid Conundrum
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2019/04/22The CCSS funded 15,000 prostheses to help those hard of hearing. This sounds good on the surface but the Costa Rican Association of Therapists is against this move. Let’s look…
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Liposuction Lost Of Life in Costa Rica
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2019/02/28A 28-year-old woman, Eileen Bravo Córdoba, lost her life shortly after undergoing liposuction at the Habibi Clinic in Escazú. She suffered a cardiac arrest but overcame it. It happened again…
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CCSS Healthcare Scam in Costa Rica
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2019/02/24A businessman is being charged of 100 crimes of fraud against the CCSS. He is accused of charging supplies for fake patients. The man worked as a manager of Synthes,…
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Do You Like Pigeons in Your Hospital Room in Costa Rica?
by admin 2019/02/11Several patients and relatives took pictures and recorded videos of pigeons in the halls and even in bed with a patient in the Hospital Mexico. These have been circulating social…