Here, every birth is a joy. It doesn’t matter if other girls and boys were born before. It doesn’t matter if all mothers are alike. Here, life is joy. These days, the Bolivarian University Clinic celebrates 20 years of foundation; the 90,000th birth has occurred and it becomes a reason for celebration: Emiliano arrived, a child who was born after 37 weeks of gestation and a high-risk pregnancy.
“For the Bolivarian University Clinic It is a source of pride to attend 90,000 deliveries as a result of an institutional trajectory, with a care model centered on the patient and their family, responding to the needs and expectations of users with a humanized experience of the service and the permanent commitment to Protection. of the Wonderful Gift of Life”, affirmed Carlos Alberto Restrepo Molina, general director of the institution.
In 2003, the Maternal and Child Unit of the UPB Clinic was inaugurated and attended her first birth. Since then, a process of improving, learning, involving technology and the best professionals has advanced. Today it is already recognized for being one of the best clinics in Latin America, in its style. Here, babies are successfully diagnosed and treated before they are born.
some figures
- This clinic attends around 6 thousand births per year; 50 percent of them are considered highly complex.
- Every year it attends around 22 thousand gynecological and obstetric emergencies.
- The American Society for Obstetric and Perinatal Anesthesia (SOAP) qualified it as a center of obstetric excellence.
- Its Neonatal Unit works permanently in the development of innovative therapies and treatments that improve the conditions of babies with low weight or delicate conditions.