Baar,22.03.2017

New orthopaedic and trauma clinic about to open

As from the beginning of April, the current departments of orthopaedics and accident surgery are to be grouped together to form a separate clinic at the Zug Cantonal Hospital (KS) with medical cover to continue to the same extent as at present.
 
The doctor responsible for this orthopaedic and traumatology clinic is to be Reto Twerenbold (photograph), currently the senior doctor at the hospital’s department of orthopaedics.
 
According to the director of the KS, Martin Winistörfer, the setting-up of this clinic has come at just the right time, with the ever-increasing need for specialisation in relation to orthopaedics and traumatology. “The resignation of three of our orthopaedic specialists four weeks ago will also opening up other opportunities,” he said. In addition, he said how the new clinic would be working closely together with specialists in the related areas of emergency medicine, sports medicine, radiography, occupational and physiotherapy, as well as pain relief.
 
As Twerenbold said, the concentration of these various core areas of competence will mean that, in cases of accidents or diseases rating to skeletal problems, patients will be able to benefit from a more individually-targeted method of treatment, with cooperation from other departments playing a key role in the success of it. “All of this will contribute to the people of Zug benefiting from enhanced medical care in these areas,” he added.