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División Toxicología - Hospital Fernández

Cerviño 3356 (C1425AGP) | Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires | Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires| Argentina

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Contact Data

Phone

*54 11 4808-2655

Business hours

24 horas los 365 días del año

Institution

Type of organisation
Governamental/Public-regional
Year of foundation
1984
Institutional presentation
La División Toxicología presenta tres dispositivos de atención de pacientes con consumo de sustancias psicoactivas: urgencias, consultorio externo para tratamientos ambulatorios y sala de internación para desintoxicación.
Direct beneficiaries
  • Experimental drug users
  • Drug users
  • Problematic drug users
  • Fromer drug users
Target population activities
  • Family/parents
Objective of the centre/ services
El objetivo fue y es dar respuesta a los problemas toxicológicos, siendo el primer centro especializado con sede en un hospital general de agudos, lo que pone precisamente en evidencia la importancia de las patologías de origen toxicológico que afectan en forma aguda y grave a la comunidad. Cuenta además con un equipo de asistencia específica de la problemática del abuso de sustancias psicoactivas, que incluye el alcoholismo y la drogadependencia, para la adolescencia y la edad adulta.
National coverage

Intervention framework

Intervention types
  • Treatment
  • Risk reduction
  • Harm reduction
Intervention framework for Treatment
  • Outpatient/diurnal/outpatients clinic
  • Internment/in-patient
Intervention framework for Risk reduction
  • Interventions on massive public events
Intervention framework for Harm reduction
  • Distribution of hygienic injection material (syringes and other paraphernalia)
Activities
Description of the main activities

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