The Albert Einstein Hospital opens this week a teaching and research center to expand its graduations and laboratories.
The building, which is connected to the hospital, in the Morumbi neighborhood, in São Paulo, began construction in January 2019. The space has 44,000 square meters, an area with Atlantic Forest trees and natural lighting.
The investment was R$ 700 million, of which R$ 150 million were donations from companies and individuals, says Sidney Klajner, president of Einstein.
According to him, in addition to the current courses in nursing and medicine, which will operate on the new campus, the hospital should offer, starting next year, faculties of health administration, biomedical engineering and dentistry at its unit in Butantã, in São Paulo. Physiotherapy classes start this year.
The campus is also expected to house new state-of-the-art health labs, says Klajner.
“We are interested in repatriating Brazilian researchers who are in organizations abroad. We saw many specialists, many researchers talking about Covid, Brazilians in other organizations around the world. subsidies for research in the country. And this scenario has to change”, he says.
During the pandemic, the hospital was at the forefront of research on Covid, with sequencing of new variants. “A large part of this research journey was responsible for the work in record time during the pandemic, which demonstrated the ineffectiveness of some drugs and the effectiveness of others”, he says.
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