Women’s health: free visits and consultations for the (H) Open Week
Conferences, dissemination activities, conferences, info points, visits and consultancy, for a week entirely dedicated to prevention and treatment for women. This is in fact the guiding spirit that animates the(H) Open Weekthe initiative organized by Onda ETS Foundation, from 18 to 24 April, which offers free visits and consultations at participating hospitals throughout the peninsula, on the occasion of National Women’s Health Day on 22 April. Many of the structures involved are part of the network Hospitals of Excellence.
The services offered
There are many services offered: ranging from breast visits to dermatology visits, the possibility of carrying out ultrasound scans, mammograms, contraception counseling, dietary consultations, rheumatology visits, interviews with diabetologists and psychologists, with reproductive medicine experts . Consultations with cardiologists and urologists are also available, with the possibility of electrocardiograms and on-site visits.
The areas covered by the activities – many, in addition to visits, are educational and informative, which can also be followed remotely – are those of cardiology, colonproctology, dermatology, diabetology, dietetics and nutrition, endocrinology and metabolic diseases, gynecology and obstetrics, reproductive medicine, neurology, gynecological oncology, medical oncology, pulmonology, psychiatry, rheumatology, breastology, urology. There will also be space for services and paths dedicated to violence against women. Some of the activities proposed are by reservation only, with different methods and timing, and the list of all the appointments and services offered by the 260 pink label hospitals participating in the (H) Open Week is available on initiative website.
The initiatives of the Hospitals of Excellence
Among the activities proposed by the Hospitals of Excellence, we highlight, for example, that ofCareggi University Hospital which is organizing screening tests for arteriopathy obliterans (a condition closely related to atherosclerosis) on April 22nd. The Monzino Cardiology Centerinstead, on 18 and 22 April it offers free telephone consultations on general and interventional cardiology. On the 21stASST Civil Spedali of Brescia offers the possibility of cardiological visits with ECG.
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L’University Hospital of Parma instead, it is organizing interviews with a urologist specialized in uro-gynecology and functional urology on April 18th, while on the 22nd in Terni theS. Maria Hospital Company offers the possibility of urogynecological visits, as well asIRCCS San Martino Polyclinic Hospital of Genoa for the 18th.
