Lund University Hospital
The Lund University Hospital ( Universitetssjukhuset i Lund (USiL) ) in the southern Swedish city of Lund is one of Sweden's oldest hospitals.
The hospital, which was founded in 1768 and has a catchment area throughout southern Sweden, has around 7,800 employees and houses, among other things, highly specialized medical fields such as neurosurgery , internal medicine and prenatal medicine . The annual budget for 2006 was 5.4 billion SEK , which corresponds to around 582 million euros.
history
Various hospitals already existed in Lund before the 19th century, but it was not until 1864 that a central hospital was built with the Gamla Kirurgen . However, the existing buildings were not sufficient and so shortly before the First World War a coherent complex was built near the Allhelgonakyrkan , which is now used by Lund University .
In the 1940s, expansion began in the area north of the university library. A new children's hospital was opened in 1951. During this time, the oncology and the ear, nose and throat clinic came into being, made possible primarily by donations from the royal family. Nevertheless, the space deficit could not be reduced and so in 1964 work began on building another new building. This was built in record time and inaugurated in 1968 by the former Prime Minister Tage Erlander . The move to the new building was completed two years later, and the new lung clinic was now also under a new roof. The blocket , the main building of the hospital, is today one of the tallest structures in the city at 55 m.
Since the 1970s, some renovations and extensions have been implemented. In addition to the new multi-storey car parks and the bus terminal, a new children's hospital was added in 2001. The latest innovations are the Ronald McDonald House , the helicopter landing pad and the new emergency room , which was inaugurated in 2004.
Web links
- Official website (Swedish and others)
Coordinates: 55 ° 42 ′ 42 ″ N , 13 ° 11 ′ 54 ″ E