We are the combination of four hospitals: the General Hospital, the Children’s Hospital, the Women’s Hospital and the Traumatology, Rehabilitation and Burns Hospital. We are part of the Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus: a world-leading health park where healthcare plays a crucial role.
Below we will list the departments and units that form part of Vall d’Hebron Hospital and the main diseases that we treat. We will also make recommendations based on advice backed up by scientific evidence that has been shown to be effective in guaranteeing well-being and quality of life.
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The Drassanes Vall d'Hebron Centre for International Health and Infectious Diseases is a clinic specialising in communicable diseases.
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Located in the heart of Barcelona, the Centre for International Health and Infectious Diseases of Drassanes- Vall d’Hebron, integrates different types of services that collaborate; pioneering the healthcare structure within the Catalan Institute of Health (ICS).
The department is divided into different units: sexually transmitted infections, tuberculosis, international health and travel medicine, community health, transcultural psychiatry, and the microbiology laboratory that aids all the units. Prevention, rapid diagnosis, and early treatment are key features of the Drassanes- Vall d’Hebron Center for International Health and Communicable Diseases, where administrative staff, nursing staff, community health agents, and medical staff from the pulmonology, paediatrics, infectious diseases, psychiatry, and microbiology department work together to provide the best care.
Professionals work with culturally competent care, adapted to each patient, guaranteeing compliance with visits and adherence to treatment. The centre supports care and teaching for Primary Care and other hospitals promoting multidisciplinary innovation and research programs both in its own and other multicentre (nationally and internationally), collaborating in a network with third-sector entities.
For any questions or queries, please email: ccee.drassanes@vallhebron.cat
This unit treats all patients who present with symptoms compatible with a sexually transmitted infection (STI), those who have had contact with an STI, or those who want to be screened.
An immediate care consultation can be requested by appointment, where a quick diagnosis and specific treatment are provided (most of the time administered in the same centre during the visit), and specialised advice to provide prevention according to sexual habits. This program is also known as the Drassanes Exprés.
The unit also provides pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). PrEP consists of a program for comprehensive sexuality care aimed at people vulnerable to contracting HIV based on the administration of antiretroviral medication.
The centre also specialises in rapid diagnosis, personalized treatment, and prevention of tuberculosis. In any person with long-standing respiratory symptoms, this disease must be ruled out. The risk factors include alcoholism, drug addiction, economic difficulties, and homelessness, all increasing the risk of suffering from tuberculosis.
The professionals in this area are dedicated to the care of patients with suspected or confirmed diagnoses of tuberculosis, especially with pulmonary involvement, as well as monitor them throughout their therapy until the patient is in remission. The centre also works with individuals who have been in contact with an active case of the disease, informing them of proper treatments and preventative measures.
In the case of migrants from other countries with high incidence or high social vulnerability, early detection and treatment of a latent tuberculosis infection as well as an active tuberculosis case is offered in coordination with other agencies, including the Barcelona Public Health Agency. The Vall d’Hebron- Drassanes Tuberculosis Unit is a leader in its research and is currently collaborating with other centres. It is the reference point for Clinical units by the Primary Care department in the city of Barcelona.
This unit specialises in the prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment of any individual, whether traveller or migrant, before their trip or upon coming back if they present any symptoms or have some clinical suspicion of an infectious pathology related to their trip. To offer the best, fastest, response, we coordinate closely with the other units in the centre. This unit is part of the Health Program for International Health of the Catalan Institute of Health, as an assistant program.
A personalized consultation includes the administration of vaccines, preventative measures for malaria, and a review of the different risks of the patient’s trip to preserve their full health. You can schedule an appointment online, by calling, or in person. It is recommended that you schedule an appointment at least one month before your trip. This service has been partially subsidized by CatSalud. In the case of children under 5 years of age, the service is free, except when the patient exhibits yellow fever, in which an additional fee is involved.
The team of Public and Community Health at Drassanes-Vall d’Hebron Hospital works in the field of international health and immigration, especially with vulnerable groups, in an integrated manner with different hospital services, in connection with other primary care teams including Public health institutions and civil society entities for more comprehensive and equitable care. The team has expert health personnel specialized in public and community health, including agents from different cultures.
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The Paediatric Infectious Pathology and Immunodeficiency Unit is responsible for caring for the entire paediatric population that requires it in any of the institution’s areas of specialization. That is, international health and travel medicine, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of tuberculosis, and more recently, sexually transmitted infections, including preventative measures such as PrEP and HPV vaccination. In many cases, the care of this population requires coordination of care with professionals who care for other adult family members in the same centre.
The current trend, followed by most countries that have experienced an evolution towards multiculturalism, is to create programs of transcultural psychiatry referencing current frameworks from existing psychiatric services. The HUVH Transcultural Psychiatry Program (PPT) stems from an initiative supported by the Catalan Institute of Health and the Department of Health of the Generalitat of Catalonia. This program aims to offer mental health care services of the same quality to all patients, regardless of their ethnic or cultural origin. In 2014, the Transcultural Psychiatry Program began to collaborate with PROSICS, which resulted in the addition of the unit to the Tropical Medicine and International Health Unit of Drassanes-Vall d’Hebron.
PPT professionals offer psychiatric and psychological care, on a supra-sector basis, to all people in the community who, due to their cultural characteristics, cannot be adequately cared for in their reference mental health centers and offer additional support to programs in Cataluña that do not have those resources.
The centre has a Microbiology laboratory, an extension of the current lab at the University Hospital of Vall d’Hebron, that consists of different workspaces and is perfectly equipped with cutting-edge technology. Its location and organization model allows for quick diagnosis of the main diseases treated at the centre, creating fluid communication between professionals and clinical units. This differential feature has a direct impact on the efficiency of patient care and therefore improves it overall.
Thanks to their experience, they are referent in highly complex parasitological diagnoses. Additionally, the laboratory coordinates the rapid diagnosis program for sexually transmitted diseases in the asymptomatic high-risk population known as the Drassanes Express and the international primary health care working group for the city of Barcelona.
For any emergency, schedule an appointment or email us at ccee.drassanes@vallhebron.cat or call 934 894 408
Infectious Diseases, General Hospital
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