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Diario EL PAÍS
The British Hospital has opened new birthing rooms, a concept it was pioneered a quarter of a century ago and which it has now taken to the next level with more technology and comfort in order to ensure the best possible experience for families who entrust the institution with such an important event as the birth of a child.
The birthing rooms occupy a privileged place in the long list of contributions made by the British Hospital to medicine in Uruguay. The rooms that are transformed into delivery rooms were conceived based on the concept of humanized birth in order to facilitate a comfortable and safe birth for pregnant women.
These principles are maintained and projected into the future with a completely renovated environment and the technical and building security necessary to make childbirth a unique moment.
Created in the early 2000s, they offer patients and their companions the possibility of enjoying the most comfortable and natural posible birth in accordance with their wishes and needs and with the best medical equipment available, in case complications arise.
The pioneering innovation led by Dr. Juan Carlos Scasso receives a new boost that advances in the same direction: ensuring that women giving birth receive the comfort, privacy and intimacy they deserve at such a momentous time, along with excellent medical care.
The current heads of Gynecology and Obstetrics Department at the British Hospital, doctors Gonzalo Sotero and Juan Alves, also took on the challenge of deepening the high academic standards that support the care provided to hospital scheme members and users.
The holding of weekly conferences and the integrated work of the different medical disciplines or specialties, support and ensure the best fetal-maternal care.
Throughout the pregnancy, the mother receives personalized care according to her needs, expectations, and previous pathologies that may condition her treatment.
The treating gynecologist will guide the mother and her companion throughout the process and may rely on all the medical disciplines available at the hospital if necessary. Within the framework of a multidisciplinary approach, each of them will contribute their knowledge and experience if required.
The service also has genetic guidance, psychological support, nutritional support, and the intervention of specialists in gestational diabetes if necessary. Their contributions are added to those of the childbirth and birth classes, of sonographers, neonatologists, anesthesiologists and the entire team of gynecologists and nurses of the service.
“The purpose is to accompany the mother and her family to go through the pregnancy with all the care that the British Hospital can offer: from the comfort of a specially designed infrastructure to modern fetal monitoring, so that the mother can move around in labor,” Sotero summarized.