The usefulness of the TEI surgery in Thessaloniki

It is a known fact that in every higher academic institution functions a surgery that aims at providing care or first aid to workers and students. Aim: The aim of the present study is to show the usefulness of surgery of TEI in Thessaloniki during its daily operation and the offer of valuable care and help not only to employees but to the students as well. Material - method: It is a retrospective-comparative research. The files of surgery of TEI in Thessaloniki were studied during 2005-2007. The descriptive statistics was used on the equitable study, recording, processing and analysis of these elements via the Excel program. Results-Discussion: By the retrospective-comparative study of pre-mentioned elements are pointed out following that at a three-year period 2005-2007 2391 individuals visited the surgery with the employees being 1052 (44%) out of which 624 (59%) were women and 428 (41%) were men The students were 1399 (56%) out of which 547 (41%) were boys and 792 (59%) were girls In the whole sample 975 (40,75%) were men (students and employees) and1416 (59,23%) were women (students and employees). Regarding the reasons for which men and women visited the surgery headache (33%), hypertension (19%), control of arterial pressure (25%), dysmenorrhea (10%), gastralgia (6%), toothache (2%), lumbago (2%), dizziness (2%) and measurement of blood glucose (1%). As regards the two sexes (men and women), it seems that women except for the dysmenorrhea visit mostly the surgery because of headaches, gastralgia, toothache, lumbago and dizziness. On the contrary, men usually visit the surgery because of hypertension, control of arterial pressure and measurement of blood glucose Conclusions: According to the information above, the usefulness of surgery is proved, which covers the real needs of health service and care for both employees and students.