Costa Rica News – The Alajuela Hospital has mismanaged its resources to the extent that 16,000 appointments were wasted in just the last six months. This is happening at the…
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Costa Rica National Transplant Program is Failing
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2019/11/26The national transplant program has been failing in so many ways. One of the results of these failures is that the number of people waiting for organs has doubled in…
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Man Dies After Being Turned Away From Costa Rica Hospital
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2019/08/08The strike to protect the rights of some is putting the rights of all of us at risk. A man died after being turned away from the San Rafael de…
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Fungus in Costa Rica Hospital Has Been Contained
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2019/06/26We 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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50-year Anniversary of Costa Rica’s Hospital Mexico
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2019/05/09The 50-year anniversary of Hospital Mexico is being commemorated with a giant light display that alternately projects the flags of Costa Rica and Mexico. The design goes from the second…
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7 Foreign Medical Specialists Suspended in Costa Rica
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2019/03/067 foreign medical specialists have had their permits to practice in Costa Rica suspended because they did not pass the test put forth by the College of Physicians which issues…