Divino Espírito Santo Hospital with unity for patients who are victim of cerebral haemorrhage (AVC)
The Divino Espírito Santo Hospital, of Ponta Delgada, is going to have, since Friday, one unity specifically oriented for the treatment of patients who are victim of cerebral haemorrhage (AVC), which opening is marked by a ceremony presided by the regional secretary for Social Affairs.
In spite of registering in the Azores an inferior incidence to the checked one in the Mainland - 1,4 percent in the Region, against 1,6 percent in the continental territory - the cerebral haemorrhage diseases constitute one of the main causes of death in the archipelago.
According to data of the National Statistic Institute (INE), the AVC's provoked in 2005, in the Azores, 304 deaths, less 73 than in 2003.