Hospital Vilardebó
Hospital Vilardebó, main entrance
Geography
LocationAvenida Millán 2515, Montevideo, Uruguay
Coordinates34°52′45″S 56°11′18″W / 34.87917°S 56.18833°W / -34.87917; -56.18833
Organisation
Care systemPublic
TypePsychiatric hospital
Services
Beds300
History
Opened1880

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.[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

  1. ↑ 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 30, 2011. Retrieved January 15, 2010.
  2. ↑ Radio Centenario 1250 AM (April 2008). "Leonardo Danovich denuncia grave situación que atraviesa el Hospital Vilardebó" (in Spanish). Retrieved November 27, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ Ricardo Acuña (2004). "Servicio de Emergencia del Hospital Vilardebó" (PDF). Rev Psiquiatr Urug (in Spanish). 68 (2): 194–207. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-04-30. Retrieved 2010-11-27.
  4. ↑ Presidencia, República Oriental del Uruguay. "Autoridades practican modificaciones en el Vilardebó" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on January 6, 2010. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
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