Isaura Daniel*
isaura.daniel@anba.com.br
São Paulo – A Brazilian architect is going to take his experience in fast construction of hospitals to Dubai. Businessman Lauro Miquelin, partner and executive manager of L+M Gets, which is working in the development of projects, management of works and maintenance of hospitals, will give a talk about the matter in the city in the United Arab Emirates next weekend.
The presentation, to take place on Sunday (22), will be part of the workshops of the International Medical Care & Diagnostic Exhibition (IMD-IHF 2007), which begins on Sunday and ends on Tuesday of the following week (24). The objective of the event is to present solutions and health services for catastrophes and disasters.
Miquelin will travel to Dubai at the invitation of the Health Consortium, a program for international promotion of health services of Brazil. He will be accompanied by project manager Mauro Stormovski. Stormovski is also going to give a talk, at the same event, about what Brazil has to offer in the area to countries that live tragedies like wars and tsunamis. He is also going to talk about the Latin American experience in the privatisation of health services.
The Health Consortium is an initiative of the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex) and is integrated by five hospitals, two companies in health teaching and research and two engineering and construction companies, among them L+M Gets.
L+M Gets has 20 years of experience in the health sector and has already provided services to around 200 companies in Brazil and in other countries in Latin America. The company develops from architectural projects for hospitals, remodelling plans and studies for the development and expansion of enterprises. It also manages the construction and works on maintenance.
In the case of hospitals to be redone, the company proposal is for the work to be done as fast as possible, without stopping patient treatment, and safely for users while providing an end result that is pleasing to the eyes.
L+M Gets worked, for example, on a project for the redoing of Márcio Cunha hospital, managed by Usiminas foundation, in the interior of the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Outside Brazil, the group has already worked in Peru and Paraguay. Miquelin is an architect with a degree from the University of São Paulo (USP) and a PhD in Medical Building Design from Bristol University, in England.
The fair
IMD-IHF will have workshops and also an exhibition space for products and services. Apart form Miquelin and Stormovski, who will participate in the event as Health Consortium visitors, Brazilian company Fanem, a maker of medical and laboratory equipment, will also participate in the fair. Fanem will have a stand.
According to Stormovski, he and Miquelin will also have other activities during their stay in the United Arab Emirates, including visits to works in the Medical City that is being built in Dubai and specialized clinics in the area of traumatology.
This edition of IMD-IHF Dubai will include around 100 speakers who will take to the meeting news and technologies in the health sector. In the last edition, the show received 5,000 visitors. They are mainly from the Arab world, as well as from Africa and Asia.
The organizers expect this edition to receive 15% to 20% more visitors than the previous edition. The meeting is organized by the Department of Medical Services and Health of the government of the Emirates, the International Hospital Federation, fair promoter Index and the Charité Berlin Medical Schools.
*Translated by Mark Ament
