San Lazaro Hospital | |
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Department of Health | |
Geography | |
Location | Santa Cruz, Manila, Philippines |
Coordinates | 14°36′50.5″N 120°58′53.8″E / 14.614028°N 120.981611°E |
Organization | |
Religious affiliation | Franciscans (formerly) |
Services | |
Emergency department | Yes[1] |
Beds | 500 |
History | |
Opened | 1577 |
Links | |
Website | slh |
Lists | Hospitals in the Philippines |
The San Lazaro Hospital (SLH) is a tertiary health facility in Manila, Philippines. It is a referral facility for communicable diseases and is one of the retained special tertiary hospital of the Department of Health and is funded by subsidy from the Philippine national government. It has a bed-capacity of 500.[2] It is known as the oldest hospital in the Philippines which caters to indigents.[3]