Formerly known as Hospital do Câncer de Barretos, the institution offers free high-speed simultaneous connection for up to 2,500 patients

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced Hospital de Amor in the town of Barretos, São Paulo state, Brazil, has implemented Wi-Fi 6 connectivity for patients hospitalized in the rehabilitation and in the clinical/surgical hospitalization sectors.

Now up to 2,500 personal devices can be connected to the network at the same time for patients to talk to family, read websites, listen to music, or watch videos while recovering from cancer treatment. The Wi-Fi architecture is from HPE Aruba Networking and was deployed in the Network as a Service (NaaS) model.

“Our patients are treated through SUS, the Brazilian government-run public health care system. Most of them are in prolonged treatment away from family and friends and are not able to afford the costs of an internet data package to use during their stay in hospital. That’s why this initiative means much more than offering distractions, it’s in line with our proposal to use technology to enhance patient care and improve their experience. We look at people, not the disease,” says Caio Queiroz, Network Administrator at Hospital de Amor.