In 2024, the National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira (IFF/Fiocruz) celebrates its 100th anniversary. It has been 100 years of training professionals and conducting scientific research which provide a better healthcare to women, children and adolescents.
The opening table of the Scientific Week took place on April 2nd, on the UFRJ Salão Nobre, in Rio de Janeiro. The executive director of Fiotec, Cristiane Sendim, was one of the guests for the official opening to the celebration, and
highlighted the reference position of IFF/Fiocruz in the areas of assistance and research toward women, children and adolescents.
“Our institution congratulates the unit’s managing body, its employees, professors, researchers, physicians, nurses, technicians, among so many others, including volunteers, who act on the IFF bringing health and meaning and pride to the partnership between Fiotec and Fiocruz,” she celebrates.
The history of IFF/Fiocruz
Founded in 1924, the former Instituto Fernandes Figueira received in 2006, after over 80 years, the official accreditation as teaching hospital by the Ministry of Education. In 2010, now with the name Instituto Nacional de Saúde da Mulher, da Criança e do Adolescente Fernandes Figueira (National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira), it assumed the attribution of auxiliary authority to the Ministry of Health, with the responsibility of developing, coordinating and assessing the integrated actions, directed to the health area of this public in national scope.
The IFF/Fiocruz houses the National Reference Center of the Global Network of Mother’s Milk Banks (rBLH), a program which has been counting on the support of Fiotec for years. The WHO, Unicef and the Ministry of Health consider the Institute a “Child-Friendly Hospital”. That means that the IFF promotes, protects and supports breastfeeding, having earned such acknowledgement as a result of its permanent work, with dedication, competence and good practices in public health.
(Photos: disclosure IFF/Fiocruz)
