Medicina Nuclear en el Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Nacional de Asunción (IICS-UNA): Estado actual y proyecciones Nuclear Medicine at the Health Sciences Research Institute, National University of Asuncion): Current state and projections

In the Paraguayan public sector, the Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud (IICS) was the pioneer in the implementation of nuclear medicine in the eighties with the support of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The nuclear medicine service of the IICS has acted as support for the low-income patients that attend the Clinics Hospital of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the National University of Asuncion (UNA in Spanish) and other institutions of the capital and the countryside, performing bone, thyroid, renal and cardiologic studies together with the radioactive iodine therapy for the treatment of thyroid cancer. In 2014, the IICS will open its new facilities in the campus of the UNA in San Lorenzo, where there will be a modern building infrastructure for the new nuclear medicine service, following national and international guidelines for radiological