Hospital Nacional Guido Valadares
The Hospital Nacional Guido Valadares HNGV ( German National Hospital Guido Valadares , tetum Ospitál Nasionál Guido Valadares ) is the largest hospital in East Timor . It is located in the state capital Dili on the Avenida Dom Martinho Lopes in the Kuluhum Atas district ( Suco Culu Hun ). Until it was renamed on June 29, 2003 after East Timor's first deputy minister for labor and social affairs, Guido Valadares , it was called National Hospital Dili . The general director of the hospital is Endang Soares .
The hospital has 260 beds. There has been a hepatitis department here since 2014 . On March 26, 2020, work began on setting up an in-house pathological and microbiological laboratory to examine samples for COVID-19 . The Menzies School of Health Research, the Australian and UK governments covered the $ 350,000 cost. The World Health Organization (WHO) provided a PCR workstation (PCR hood) . Further material and know-how came from Australia. So far, samples have been flown to Australia and tested at the Royal Darwin Hospital .
The former health minister Maria do Céu Sarmento worked as a doctor at the HNGV from 1996 to 2006.
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- ↑ UNMISET via the East Timorese Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Dili National Hospital renamed , June 30, 2003 ( Memento of November 8, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Hamid Ghodse (Ed.): International Perspectives on Mental Health , p. 220, RCPsych Publications 2011. Limited preview in the Google book search
- ↑ Timor Agora: HNGV LANSA KLINIKA MORAS HEPATITIS , July 30, 2015 , accessed on March 25, 2020.
- ↑ Tatoli: Work Begins on Timor's First Covid-19 Laboratory , March 26, 2020 , accessed on March 26, 2020.
- ^ Website of the government of Timor-Leste: Members of the incoming Sixth Constitutional Government meet , February 12, 2015 , accessed on February 16, 2015 (English)
Coordinates: 8 ° 33 ′ 21.1 ″ S , 125 ° 35 ′ 34.9 ″ E