I. INTRODuçAO o Hospital Erasto Gaertner perten ce à Liga Paranaense de Combate ao Cancer, fundada a 8 de março de 1947 por uma equipe de médicos sob a pr6sidência do Professor Doutor Erasto Gaertner ; destina-se a pacientes porta dores de tumores malignos, procedentes das mais diversas camadas sociais. No momento, esse hospital atende, em mé dia, 140 (cento e quarenta) pacientes, diariamente.
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