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commitment

dedicated to delivering high-quality orthopedic care to children, ensuring that every patient receives the best treatment regardless of financial means.

ethics

We uphold strict ethical standards, prioritizing patient welfare, fairness, and equality. Every decision is made with integrity, ensuring care is delivered with compassion and respect for all individuals.

social responsibility

We are committed to providing accessible healthcare to underserved populations, working through charitable programs and initiatives to ensure equal access to medical services for all.

community

We actively engage with the community through outreach, education, and partnerships. It plays a key role in improving public health and providing families with the support they need.

since 1942

Back in 1942, whenPolio was causing havoc among Venezuelan children, a visionary entrepreneur,Don Eugenio Mendoza Goiticoa, founded the Venezuelan Foundation AgainstInfantile Paralysis (FVCLPI), with the mission to fight disability and the other sequela of Poliomyelitis. Joined by a group of collaborators, he built in l945, the most significant public service organization of that times, the “Anti-poliomyelitis Hospital of Caracas”, with the mission to provide care to the most vulnerable infantile population affected by Polio.

Years later, Dr. JonasEdward Salk discovered and tested the polio vaccine. Thus began the massive immunization program of children between the ages of two months and five years.Later, in l955, Dr. Albert Sabin developed an oral vaccine with results thatwere very successful, to the point that the disease was almost completely eradicated.

Nowadays, due to the increasing demand of medical services in the country, the HOI expanded its services to 26 different medical specialties, keeping its core mission in helping children in need, with orthopedic and neuromuscular disorders.

More than 270.000 patients received attention at the HOI, and around 5.000 surgeries are practice yearly. These goals are achieved thanks to the commitment of more than 200 doctors and health professionals and a team of 500 people working together in one of the most successful nonprofit organization in the country.

For more than 70 years the Children’s Orthopedic Hospital and the Venezuelan Foundation against infantile Paralysis have been powered by Eugenio Mendoza’s legacy, passed down from generation to generation, becoming the most important institution in child health care in Venezuela and well recognized in Latin America.

7.020.412

Patients since Foundation

85.141

Patients in 2022

1.692

Surgeries in 2022

3.511

Doctors in Training

our team

Meet the dedicated board members whose leadership and vision guide the Hospital Ortopédico Infantil in fulfilling its mission

Andreina Vogeler de Pérez

President

Mariana Frías

Secretary

Juan Andrés Vogeler

Treasurer