The Dr. Roberto Gilbert E. Children's Hospital is a non-profit hospital unit, a component of the Guayaquil Charity Board, focused on the comprehensive care of the pediatric population of Ecuador, with the participation of a highly qualified multidisciplinary team. with great resolution capacity, and with a humanitarian spirit of solidarity and integrity. Our professional staff specializes in the care of the little ones, and is made up of 1,278 workers, divided into various pediatric medical specialties, all committed to the recovery and care of children's health. Our great structure, in addition to breaking the schemes of children's hospital centers in Ecuador, allows the care of tens of thousands of children with limited resources in Ecuador, who receive decent care, in an environment that helps not only their physical rehabilitation but also psychological. The hospital has a capacity of 385 beds for the care of children. Our hospital is also a teaching institution. We have launched a permanent postgraduate program in Paediatrics. Groups of doctors of various nationalities, specialists in pediatric fields come annually to provide medical and nursing training cycles to examine and care for children. The Antonio Pino Ycaza Children's Clinic is part of the Dr. Roberto Gilbert Elizalde Hospital, and offers specialized medical attention and first class service for people who want a more personalized service for their children. It works with 23 private and 18 semi-private rooms, and the money it generates is used to cover the expenses of the general area of the health home, which helps many small poor people receive medical care at low costs.
Cardiac surgery
- Arterial switch operation (ASO) — $0
- Atrial septal defect (ASD) repair in children — $0
- Atrioventricular canal defect surgery — $0
- Blalock-Taussig shunt — $0
- Ebstein anomaly correction — $0
- Fontan procedure — $0
- Glenn procedure — $0
- Nikaidoh procedure — $0
- Norwood procedure — $0
- Partial anomalous pulmonary return (PAPVR) correction — $0
- Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) ligation in children — $0
- Pulmonary artery banding (PAB) — $0
- Radical correction of tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) — $0
- Rastelli procedure — $0
- Total anomalous pulmonary return (TAPVR) correction — $0
- Truncus arteriosus repair — $0
- Ventricular septal defect (VSD) repair in children — $0
Neurosurgery
- Brain biopsy — $0
- Brain shunt surgery — $0
- Brain tumors surgery — $0
- Burr hole surgery — $0
- Corpus callosotomy — $0
- Craniofacial surgery — $0
- Cranioplasty — $0
- Craniosynostosis surgery — $0
- Craniotomy — $0
- Decompressive craniectomy — $0
- Elevation of depressed skull fracture — $0
- Endoscopic pituitary surgery — $0
- Endoscopic septostomy — $0
- Endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) — $0
- External ventricular drain (EVD) placement — $0
- Extracranial CSF drainage — $0
- Focal resection — $0
- Functional hemispherectomy — $0
- Functional neurosurgery — $0
- Head injury surgery — $0
- Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) — $0
- Lumbar puncture — $0
- Multiple subpial transection (MST) — $0
- Ommaya reservoir placement — $0
- Repair of congenital skull defects — $0
- Responsive neurostimulation (RNS) insertion — $0
- Shunt revision — $0
- Surgery for an acoustic neuroma — $0
- Temporal lobe resection — $0
- Traumatic cerebrospinal fluid leaks surgical repair — $0
- Vagus nerve stimulator (VNS) implantation — $0
Oncology
Spine surgery
- Hemivertebra excision — $0
- Spina bifida treatment — $0
- Spine biopsy — $0
- Spine tumor surgery — $0
- Total en bloc spondylectomy (TES) — $0
Orthopedic surgery
- Arthrocentesis — $0
- Bow legs surgery — $0
- Delayed osteosynthesis — $0
- External fixation — $0
- Intramedullary nailing — $0
- Joint dislocation reduction — $0
- Muscle transfer — $0
- Open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) — $0
- Orthopedic surgery for cerebral palsy — $0
- Osteosynthesis — $0
- Pediatric arthroscopy — $0
- Percutaneous pinning — $0
- Polydactyly surgery — $0
- Removal of external fixator — $0
- Removal of osteosynthetic material — $0
- Sternal fracture treatment — $0
- Surgical Treatments for Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease — $0
- Surgical treatment of congenital pseudarthrosis of the tibia — $0
- Surgical treatment of hip dysplasia — $0
- Surgical treatment of non-unions — $0
- Syndactyly surgery — $0
- Tendon repair — $0
- Tendon transfer — $0
- Tenotomy — $0
