Sant'Ana Orthopedic Hospital. Nostalgia for the Future. Unlikely Heroes

Panoramic view of the past and present of the Orthopedic Hospital of Sant’Ana (HOSA), in Parede, an establishment of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, which originated as a sanatorium over a century ago. Owned by the Misericórdia due to the legacy of the benefactor Claudina Chamiço, the chronicle of this establishment requires a return to the past, to the time when tuberculosis justified the nickname of white plague. In this book, the reader is taken to witness the construction of a pioneering project from the first stone. Traveling to a space of Beauty and Goodness that was never limited to being merely a factory of healing and had the ability to celebrate life in the face of illness. And to identify the sum of knowledge and experiences that intertwine the narrative of HOSA with that of national Orthopedics. Because the life of this establishment is also made up of the daily life of the present, Ana Gomes recounts the story of Tiago Nunes, a young patient with cerebral palsy admitted to HOSA for a surgical intervention, the protagonist of the report that narrates the day-to-day of a hospital that never sleeps. This is the third issue of the “Solidarity Notebooks SCML” collection, an editorial series that showcases the work developed by the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa in its various areas of intervention.

Watch the SCML Report at the Orthopedic Hospital of Sant’Ana (HOSA).

Author: Ana Gomes
Collection: Solidarity Notebooks

Year of publication: 2010
Publisher: SCML
ISBN: 9789728761820