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All doctors in the country must be affiliated with it in order to practice the profession legally in Costa Rica. In addition, technicians in different medical fields are incorporated into the institution. Their offices are located in Sabana Sur, San José de Costa Rica. The present chairman is Mainor Vargas, a specialist in pathology.
Hospital Dr Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, built in 1946 (rebuilt in 1990 and 2015) Centro Nacional de Rehabilitación, built in 1973; Hospital Dr. Raúl Blanco Cervantes (for gerontological and geriatric healthcare), built in 1950 and rebuilt in 2016; Hospital Nacional de las Mujeres Dr Ricardo Carit Eva; Hospital México, built in 1969
The Costa Rican Social Security Fund or Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (as it is known in Spanish) is in charge of most of the nation's public health sector. Its role in public health (as the administrator of health institutions) is key in Costa Rica, playing an important part in the state's national health policy making.
The hospital commemorates Dr. Tony Facio (29 October 1918 – 20 December 1948), a native of Puerto Limón born as Maximiliano Antonio de la Paz Facio Castro, son of Dr. Antonio Facio Ulloa and Cristina Castro Carazo, who died at the age of 30. [2]
Currently, all of the degrees offered are accredited by SINAES, being one of the few universities in Costa Rica that achieves this. Moreover, in 2019 the university's medical school achieved an international accreditation by the Consejo Mexicano para la Acreditación de la Educación Médica (COMAEM), which guarantees the excellence of the ...
Ricardo Moreno Cañas (May 8, 1890 – August 23, 1938) was a Costa Rican physician and congressman. [1] He was shot dead by Beltrán Cortés, reportedly due to an unsuccessful surgery Moreno performed on him. [citation needed] He is a historical personality revered and prayed to religiously by the local population. [2]
Costa Rica: Historia de Costa Rica. Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica. ISBN 978-9977-67-411-7. La Feber, Walter (1993). Inevitable Revolutions The United States in Central America. Norton Press. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-393-03434-9. Longley, Kyle (1997). The Sparrow and the Hawk: Costa Rica and the United States During the Rise of Jose ...
Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia was born on 8 March 1900 in San José. In his youth, Calderón Guardia studied in Costa Rica, France and Belgium, where he married Yvonne Clays Spoelders, who was later to be the first female diplomat of Costa Rica. After finishing his studies in Belgium, Calderón Guardia became a medical doctor and practicing ...