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ABOUT US |
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The Special Hospital for Orthopaedic Surgery and
Traumatology Ohrid - Republic of Macedonia, was founded on
19th July 1950 as a "Hospital for the treatment of bone
joint tuberculosis". Through the years, with the hospital's
expertise, personnel, and economic development, conditions
have been created for the successful treatment of many other
orthopaedic diseases (not only bone joint tuberculosis), as
well as the implementation of new treatment methods for the
acute trauma and its sequels on the bone joint system. In
1988 the hospital transforms into an "Institute for
Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology", so that, in 1995, in
accordance with the Health Care Law, changes its name into
Special Hospital for Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology.
Following the modern trends in the orthopaedic surgery,
traumatology, and |
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reconstructive surgery in general, as
well as in the
physical therapy and rehabilitation, there is a gradual
tendency to confirm the attitude towards an expanding
expertise and personnel policy, implementing new techniques
and methods of work. In accordance with the new demands, we
have defined the stance for functionalism and rationalism in
the organization of the work. The hospital has 400 hospital
beds at its disposal. There are around 2500-3000 patients
coming for a medical treatment a year with about 1000
surgeries, and an average medical treatment of 33,2 days.
Number of employees: 253; 10 orthopaedic surgeons; 3 anaesthetists; 6
specialists in physical therapy and rehabilitation; 1
urology surgeon (a doctor of med. science); 1 specialist in
reconstructive surgery; 1 transfusiologist; 1 radiologist; 1
neurosurgeon; 1 specialist in biochemistry; 2 pediatrics specialists. |
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A little history |
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50s: formed as a special hospital for the treatment of bone
joint tuberculosis; tuberculosis treatment: conservative
The end of the 50s and beginning of the 60s: surgeries
performed on the bone joint system in the treatment of
tuberculosis, as well as surgeries performed on children
treated for poliomyelitis, and septic & non-septic infection
of joints and bones; There has been an introduction of a
system of early neonatal detection and prevention of
congenital and developed anomalies with the newly born
children.
Towards the end of the 70s: reconstructive surgeries on a
children's hip; joint replacement. |
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In the beginning of the 80s: there is an
implementation of conservative and operative methods and
techniques for the correction of the spine deformities;
spine injuries and its sequels; the formation of the centre
for paraplegia which provides conservative and operational
of the patients suffering from paraplegia and their
rehabilitation.
In the beginning of the 80s there has been an introduction
of a range of conservative and operative treatment methods
in children suffering from cerebral palsy, and also their
rehabilitation. |
- 1984: Ilizarov methods
and techniques have been implemented, which regard
elongation and reconstruction of long bones(elongation,
corrective&reconstructive surgeries,
pseudoartrosis(nonunions) and bone defects, also including
congenital or acquired deformities of the foot).
During the 70s and 80s various contacts have been
established with numerous referential centres in former
Yugoslavia and institutions in France, USSR, and Germany,
enabling the development of an expertise collaboration with
the institutions mentioned above. |
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Toward the end of the 80a and 90s
various surgeries from the field of modern traumatology have
been implemented, following the principles of the AO/ASIF
school.
- 1997г. This hospital
got the first complete health care information system in the
country, enabling the medical and administrative work within
the hospital; Internet connection. |
Other expertise activities of the
hospital:
- 1974
International Congress of orthopaedic surgeons and trauma
specialists organized by YAOT(Yugoslav Association of
Orthopaedic Surgeons and Trauma Specialists);
- 1984 Cerebral Palsy Symposium;
- 1988 Promotion of the CD method used in the treatment of spine
deformities and trauma by G. Chopin from Berk (France)
- 1989 Spine Deformities Symposium
- 1989 Association formed for the study of Ilizarov methods and
techniques 1984, 1986, 1989 Seminars on Ilizarov methods and
techniques under the direct guidance of Ph. D. Gavrl
Abramovich Ilizarov and the present director of the Russian
Scientific & Research Centre for Reconstructive &
Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Ph. D. Vladimir
Ivanovich Schevzov. |
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