Instituto Traumatológico Dr. Teodoro Gebauer Weisser

About Instituto Traumatológico Dr. Teodoro Gebauer Weisser

The Traumatological Institute is a high-complexity, self-managed public hospital specializing in Orthopedics and Traumatology, and a national and regional referral center for these pathologies. Its organization is defined in Supreme Decree 140 of 2004 (which repeals Decree No. 42, of 1986) "Organic Regulations of Health Services", published in the Official Gazette on April 21, 2005. It serves an adult population, over 15 years of age, from the Metropolitan Occident Health Service and the 15 communes that comprise it. It resolves 54 percent of the traumatic pathology in the Metropolitan Region and 12 percent of that same pathology in the country. In the teaching-assistance field, it is a training center for undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Orthopedics and Traumatology for doctors, nurses, and kinesiologists. It is also a training center for paramedical technicians in Nursing and Radiology.