Limeira - Health

Health

Limeira has five main hospitals. Two of them are charitable and receive public financial and management assistance:

  • Santa Casa de Misericórdia
  • Sociedade Operária Humanitária

The other three are private:

  • Hospital Unimed
  • Hospital Medical
  • Hospital Dia (formerly "Hospital Filantrópico Beneficência Limeirense", which was closed and taken over by the Santa Casa de Misericórdia).

The Brazilian public health system - SUS - operates within the Santa Casa de Misericórdia, which is one of the largest public hospitals in the country side of São Paulo State, serving currently patients in 92 cities in São Paulo and southern Minas Gerais. Limeira currently achieved a higher HDI and it has its medical sector very developed compared to the others along the country, and also by comparing to the hospitals over Latin America. There are also visits by the SUS to the neighborhoods if they are needed, several Basic Health Units (Unidades Básicas de Saúde) spread throughout the city can provide heath care to any citizen in their own house if they want.

Limeira also has public dentist assistance provided by the "Unidade Básica de Saúde", UBS, mainly with private characteristics, and a special public health center specialized in children.

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