The motherhood of the Hospital de Basurto celebrates four decades of history and almost 70,000 births.

-Celebrated its anniversary in the Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao with a special day in which maternity Osakidetza experts reviewed its history

– during its four decades of life has won various awards for its quality and management

Bilbao, December of 2011- the service of gynaecology and obstetrics of the Hospital de Basurto held last Friday 16 Decemberin the Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao its 40th anniversary with a special in which, through presentations of experts day, reviewed its history. This service, since it opened its doors in 1971, has made a total of 68.764 births (until October 2011).

This anniversary was commemorated in the Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao where last Friday, held a special day of presentations of experts which has been opened by the Health Minister of the Department of health and consumption of the Basque Government, Rafael Bengoa, and managing director of the Center bilbaino, Julen Ballestero.

In particular, this meeting of experts, from the hand of Dr. Miguel Lopez Valverde, head of the gynaecology and obstetrics of the Centre, reviewed through several papers the history of the service, as well as the different advances and phases which have been the service.

The event also addressed the development of perinatal mortality until today; pregnancy beyond the age of 40 and the evolution that has suffered attendance at childbirth. Among other issues, the expert meeting also attempted cancer of cervix, fetal heart disease, and used for the treatment of gynecological cancers robotics.

Motherhood of Bilbao Basurto Hospital began its activity in March 1971 in Pavilion Alonso Allende, sharing space with cardiology, where he remained for the first 13 years. At this time, in Bilbao, there was a central public assistance obstetric, the old maternity of Solokoetxe, dependent of the Provincial Council, opened in 1883 as a home for foundlings (children exposed or abandoned in the winch of the charity.

)In 1895 was built surrounding the maternity home for deshonradas single ”. In addition, Bilbao also had the institution La Gota de Leche ”, created in 1906, under the Municipal charities, to combat infant mortality and promote breastfeeding.

In July of 84, maternity became a Community Pavilion and in July of 89 moved to Pavilion Iturrizar to occupy a space totally renovated and with good facilities. In these 40 years, the service has seen a total of 68.764 births (until October 2011), with resulting fluctuations in various social and medical developments from every era. Thus, for example, from 93, suffered a significant decline in the number of births, this time coinciding with the fact of the implantation of epidural analgesia in childbirth in the Hospital de Cruces, at least during the morning hours, while the Centre still did not have that possibilityso it suffers a second record low in 1995, with only 975 deliveries.

For this reason, the efforts of the Centre, as the Chief of service, is focused on argue before the managers of that time, the need to implement the epidural analgesia in delivery care and finally, that desire was transformed into pleasant reality on May 27, 1996 ”.

In 1996, bid epidural analgesia during the 24 hours of the day, marked a historic milestone, which resulted in an increase in the number of assisted deliveries and aided by the slight increase in the number of births in Bizkaia starting from 97 ”, says Lopez Valverde.

Awards

For more than ten years, gynaecology and obstetrics service opted for work in quality and management processes, guiding the welfare work to the satisfaction of the patients and the improvement continues. This has been done that we can identify those areas that require improvement and thus achieve better results ”, indicates.

In this sense, fruit of its improvement process continues, the Centre has achieved various awards in recent years. These have been: in 2005. Enters the TOP 20 of services for the management and service quality.

A year later, in 2006, he obtained the ISO 9001: 2000 certification. In 2008, was awarded the BEST IN CLASS Award for best specialty in obstetrics and Gynecology patient care ”. Last year obtained the certification ISO 9001: 2008 by comprehensive attention to the user in the process of pregnancy, childbirth and Puerperios normal ”.