Hospital Vilardebó
| Hospital Vilardebó | |
|---|---|
 Hospital Vilardebó, main entrance | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Coordinates | 34°52′45″S 56°11′18″W / 34.87917°S 56.18833°WCoordinates: 34°52′45″S 56°11′18″W / 34.87917°S 56.18833°W |
| Organisation | |
| Hospital type | Psychiatric |
| Services | |
| Beds | 300 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1880 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in Uruguay |
Hospital Vilardebó is the only psychiatric hospital in Reducto, Montevideo, Uruguay. It opened on 21 May 1880, named after the physician and naturalist Teodoro Vilardebó Matuliche.[1] The hospital was originally one of the best of Latin America and in 1915 grew to 1,500 hospital inpatients. Today the hospital is very deteriorated, with broken walls and floors, lack of medicines, beds, and rooms for the personnel.[2] It has an emergency service, outpatient, clinic and internal rooms and employs approximately 610 staff, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, administrators, guards, among others.[3] The average patient age is 30 years, more than half of whom arrive by court order; 42% suffer from schizophrenia, 18% suffer from depression and mania [4] and also a high percentage of drug addicted patients. It has around 300 beds.
References
- ↑ Beatriz Pasturino y col. (2004). "Estudio sobre suicidios consumados. Población usuaria del Hospital Vilardebó" (PDF) (in Spanish). Revista Psiquiatrica Uruguay 2004;68(2):p.147–161. Retrieved January 2010.
- ↑ Radio Centenario 1250 AM (April 2008). "Leonardo Danovich denuncia grave situación que atraviesa el Hospital Vilardebó" (in Spanish). Retrieved November 27, 2010.
- ↑ Ricardo Acuña (2004). "Servicio de Emergencia del Hospital Vilardebó" (PDF). Rev Psiquiatr Urug (in Spanish) 68 (2): 194–207.
- ↑ Presidencia, República Oriental del Uruguay. "Autoridades practican modificaciones en el Vilardebó" (in Spanish). Retrieved November 27, 2010.