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CHRU Tours (Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Tours)

Hospital overview.

This university hospital applies to the state facilities. Under one name there are six hospitals located in the privileged area.

The hospital accepts local patients, but foreigners can get treatment there too. About 28% of the patients live outside the department. At the same time, the hospital can accept up to 2,100 people – so many beds there are in the departments of this medical facility.

The hospital is famous for its advanced technologies that help increase treatment success. It is much higher in comparison with its competitors. Professionals at the hospital guarantee the high quality of work and different ways of treatment of pathologies.

For the patient, it isn’t obligatory to be hospitalized, as treatment can be performed in outpatient conditions. Only here are difficult operations performed involving cornea transplantation, organ transplantation, marrow transplantation, etc. The patients will be in great hands with reliable specialists and forever forget about cancer, autism, tuberculosis and so on.

CHRU Tours is very popular among the French. It has 130 departments of different specializations; therefore, the list of services is quite varied.

The latest developments applied in practice are the result of collaborative scientific work of doctors and medical faculties and research organizations. A lot of specialists practicing here are widely known. Extensive experience and high qualification combined with the latest equipment allow effective help to be given to patients, providing them with the best conditions for treatment.

One of the most important areas of the specialists’ work is the fight against in-hospital infections, which involves many categories of hospital patients from newborns to those who undergo a difficult operation.

Work in preventing infections is supervised by a special structure – Committee of the fight against in-hospital infections. For the safety of patients, there is a constant control of water and air treatment in those places where it is necessary.

Living conditions

The personnel of CHRU Tours takes care of the comfort of your stay within the walls of this medical facility. For this reason, for better orientation, there are a lot of signs helping you to adapt quickly to new conditions. At the same time, bed linen and personal hygiene items are received in the hospital, so there is no need to bring them from your house.

A separate aspect of comfortable treatment includes catering services. In CHRU Tours, the menu is developed by a versatile group, which considers advice on nutrition from each group of patients. In most cases, the rations are formed according to the prescriptions from the attending physician and nutritionist.

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The biomedical and public health research committee, the research department of the faculty of medicine.

• The hospital is an ideal training ground for health students at the University of Tours.
• Annual joint events enable the general public, students and researchers to be made aware of medical training and research.
• The research teams shared by the university and the CHRU benefit from optimal conditions (provision of hospital and university hospital staff who are members of the CNRS, Inserm and INRA UMR; provision of hospital premises and equipment).
• The biology-health field at the University of Tours is highly recognised nationally and internationally.
• The Centre Val de Loire collegium enables the university and the Tours CHRU to forge institutional links with regional hospital groups.
• Research platforms are shared by the University of Tours and the CHRU. Similarly, some research projects allow the collaboration of staff from both entities.
• The Rare Diseases Plan has resulted in the labelling of four CHRU sites, which constitute four reference centres that often work in close collaboration with the University of Tours.
• As part of the Future Investment Programmes, the CHRU is associated with the Labex MAbImprove;
• The SATT Grand Centre, which enables the CHRU and the university to register patents.

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Pope Francis arrives in Indonesia as he begins ambitious Asia-Pacific tour

Pope Francis arrives at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, in Tangerang, Indonesia, on Sept. 3. Willy Kurniawan/Reuters

Dozens of excited Indonesians waved on Tuesday as a motorcade carried Pope Francis through the capital as he began the first leg of an ambitious Asia-Pacific tour expected to urge global action on climate change as part of his longest trip yet.

The 87-year-old pontiff, who will also visit East Timor, Singapore and Papua New Guinea over the next 10 days, was seated in a wheelchair as a lift disembarked him from a chartered aircraft at Jakarta airport.

Two children in traditional clothes presented a bouquet of local produce before the pope was greeted by Indonesia’s religious affairs minister, its Vatican envoy and several of its bishops on a red carpet flanked by honour guards.

Francis then drove off in a waiting car, waving and smiling. As his motorcade passed through Jakarta towards the Vatican embassy, where he is staying, small crowds of people were seen waving excitedly.

“I’m so happy, I feel so blessed,” said Enny Rahail, 52, who travelled 3,000 km (1,860 miles) to Jakarta from her home in southeast Maluku before standing for two hours in midday heat to wave to the pope outside the embassy.

“As Indonesians we are happy because the Catholic leader comes to our country,” said Enny, who called Francis an “advocate for peace” and said she cried as the pope arrived.

The aging pope was not set to attend any public events on Tuesday, to allow him time for rest after the 13-hour overnight flight from Rome.

But shortly after arriving at the embassy, Francis held an informal meeting with a group of refugees living in Indonesia.

The Vatican gave few details, but said the group included persons from Somalia, Sri Lanka and members of the persecuted Rohingya minority from Myanmar.

The pontiff is set to travel nearly 33,000 km (21,000 miles)on the 12 days of the Asia-Pacific tour, before he arrives back in Rome late in the evening of Sept. 13.

At the beginning of his flight to Jakarta, Francis spent roughly half an hour individually greeting the accompanying journalists, leaning on a cane as he walked slowly around the back of the aircraft, chatting and shaking hands.

He offered only a few words about the trip, saying the coming days would represent his longest voyage abroad.

Francis, who is not only the leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics but also the Vatican’s head of state, wired customary greetings to every country he crossed on the way to Indonesia, including Iran, India, Pakistan and Turkey.

He offered prayers of peace, hopes for prosperity, or divine blessings, in messages varying with each country.

An address to Indonesia’s political leaders on Wednesday will be the pope’s first official event. The following day, he will participate in an interreligious meeting at Southeast Asia’s largest mosque, the Istiqlal Mosque.

Francis, who pushed for the 2015 Paris climate pact, is expected to continue voicing appeals to confront the dangers of a warming globe.

Jakarta, the Indonesian capital home to at least 10 million people, is vulnerable to climate change, as it tackles chronic flooding and sinking land. The government is building a new capital, Nusantara, on the island of Borneo.

Just 3 per cent of a population of about 280 million is Catholic in Indonesia, which is the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation.

“This is a very historic visit,” Indonesian President Joko Widodo told reporters before the pope’s arrival, offering Francis a warm welcome on a long-planned visit that had been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Indonesia and the Vatican have a similar commitment to cultivate peace and brotherhood as well as ensure prosperity for the people.”

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