Beyond the Disease – History of the House for Patients with Chagas Disease and Heart Failure of Pernambuco (Casa do Portador de Doença de Chagas e Insuficiência Cardíaca de Pernambuco)/PROCAPE-UPE/Brazil

Abstract

Where it all began The history of the Chagas Disease and Heart Failure Outpatient Clinic of the Prof. Luiz Tavares Cardiology Emergency Unit of Pernambuco, at Universidade de Pernambuco (UPE), began in August 1987 at Hospital Universitário Oswaldo Cruz (HUOC). When it was created, in 1884, this hospital worked mainly providing care for patients with infectious and parasitic diseases. Since that time, the hospital worked with diseases that later became known as unassisted (nowadays named and classified as neglected diseases [...]