El Servicio de Hematología del Hospital de Especialidades del IMSS de Puebla. Datos y cifras

Background: Haematology has been exercised since five decades ago in Specialties Hospital Manuel Avila Camacho, Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), Puebla, Mexico, when one haematologist was hired. The specialty developed in our center during that period. Since 1985 two haematologists consultants were practicing and nowadays there are six. First bone marrow transplantation in our State was made in our hospital in 1992. In 2004 Haematology Service was founded as Clinical Department and split out of Internal Medicine Service. The Haematology Residency Postgraduate Course started in 2011; there are seven physicians in training on it at this time.