Malaga brings together for the fifth consecutive year to national and international experts in Pediatrics

-Bring together medical and paediatric nurses of prestige, to address the treatment and diagnosis of most frequent pathologies: pneumonia, bronchitis, and whooping cough in children.

-prevention will be the linchpin of an encounter that will shed light on the problems of influenza, hepatitis, or cancer of uterus.

-professionals discussed the role of private medicine in a marked by the situation mosaic interim physicians and the lack of recognition of specialties in the nursing of the hospitals sector public.

Málaga, January 2012.- why not vaccinate all children in hepatitis A? When we do it? why children spend the flu? These are some of the questions that experts in medicine and nursing be addressed in the V Symposium of Pediatrics, which organizes the Chiron Malaga Hospital paediatric service and will be held on 26 and 27 January in the hotel NH Málaga.

The opening of the Symposium, which will take place today at 16: 00 pm, will feature Dr. Rubén Sanz, Manager of the Malaga Chiron Hospital interventions; by Dr. Juan José Sánchez, President of the College of physicians of Malaga and Juan Antonio Astorga, President of the College of nursing, who will open a meeting that aims to analyze the pediatric practice today, analyse the momentum of private health care in the current economic scenario, and emphasizing the diagnosis and treatment of major diseases and infectious diseases in our autonomous community. For Dr. Manuel Baca, Chief of Pediatrics Hospital Quirón Malaga and coordinator of the meeting, this Symposium involves the possibility of bringing together 400 children, Pediatrics and nursing professionals, to make an update on infections and their prevention in Andalusia, which also reflects what is happening globally ”. According to Dr. Baca, we now have the possibility of avoiding almost all important infectious diseases through vaccination, but many of these diseases are still being ”.

The first day will cover the situation of health at present, private as well as the practice of Pediatrics and specificities occurring in our autonomy, as well as the surge in cases of whooping cough in young children. The second day of the meeting will focus on the prevention and analysis of the antipapiloma vaccine and the risk of cervical cancer, as well as the prevention and the evolution of varicella in a community with routine immunization.

About Hospital Chiron Malaga

Malaga Quirón hospital has 24,360 square meters dedicated to healthcare and an equipment of cutting edge, more than 150 physicians and surgeons at the highest level and 35 medical specialties available to the patient. The hospital has 136 beds for hospitalization of which 25 are suites, 8 operating rooms and 250 parking spaces.

Also it has all the services of a general hospital with 51 outpatient, hospital surgical day, face-to-face adult emergencies, gynecological and pediatric, localized emergencies of specialties, bath for natural births, adult ICU and neonatal ICU to the assistance of deliveries less than 32 weeks.

Currently, group hospital Chiron has seven general hospitals in Barcelona, Madrid, Málaga, San Sebastián, Valencia, Vizcaya and Zaragoza, as well as a hospital day in Zaragoza and a monographic assisted in Bilbao reproduction centre.
Quirón is the first hospital group in healthcare area of new construction in Spain, with a total of 207. 000 m km². All its centers are equipped with the most advanced equipment in diagnosis, treatment and telemedicine and, in total, there are 2,200 employees, manages 917 hospital beds, 104 ICUs, 103 operating theatres and 537 clinics.