Agios Andreas General Hospital of Patras | |
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Geography | |
Location | Patras, Achaia, Greece |
Organisation | |
Care system | Publicly funded health care |
Type | Clinical |
Services | |
Emergency department | Yes |
Beds | 400 |
History | |
Opened | 1872 |
Links | |
Website | http://www.agandreashosp.gr/ |
Lists | Hospitals in Greece |
Agios Andreas Hospital (Greek: Γενικό Νοσοκομείο Πατρών "Ο Άγιος Ανδρέας") is a hospital in Patras, Achaea, Greece. It is the second largest hospital in the city of Patras and one of the largest in Peloponnese with a total capacity of 400 beds (188 beds in the Internal Medicine sector and 192 beds in the surgical sector).[1] It first operated as the Municipal Hospital of Patras on January 1, 1872 and was renamed to its current name when it was transferred to the current building.
The hospital occupies 5 buildings of which the 3 are situated close to each other. The main multi-storey building of the hospital (built in 1973) was struck by an earthquake in 2008[2] and it is completely restored. Additionally, the central building is upgraded with new medical and hotel equipment. The renovated 7-storey building was finally inaugurated in July 2017[3] after 3 years of delays. This multi-storey building houses the departments of ophthalmology and otorhinolaryngology (7th floor), plastic surgery and urology (6th floor), internal medicine/pathology and cardiology (3rd,4th,5th floor) paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology (1st and 2nd floor). In 2011 the construction of a new wing (two-storey building) was completed and today in houses three clinics: The surgery clinic, the pathology clinic and the orthopaedic clinic.