Dr. Georgi Stranski University Hospital
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| Dr. Georgi Stranski University Hospital | |
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 View from Georgi Kochev Blvd. | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Pleven, Pleven Province, Bulgaria |
| Coordinates | 43°24′58″N 24°37′40″E / 43.41611°N 24.62778°E |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | National Health Insurance Fund |
| Funding | Public hospital |
| Type | General, teaching hospital |
| History | |
| Opened | 1865 |
| Links | |
| Website | umbalpleven |
| Lists | Hospitals in Bulgaria |
Dr. Georgi Stranski University Hospital is a major hospital located in Pleven, Bulgaria. It is one of the oldest in the country, as well as the largest in northern Bulgaria.[1]
The hospital was established in 1865, before the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule, as a waqf treatment center under the personal orders of Midhat Pasa.[2] Its first location was on the grounds of the local imaret, and its staff at the time consisted only of a foreign military doctor and two servants. He died in 1869, and was replaced by Dr. Robert Geiser, a Swiss national who was in charge of the hospital until 1877.[2]
During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, numerous Russian surgeons were active in the area during the Siege of Plevna. Nikolay Pirogov was among them, and Bulgarian physician Georgi Stranski, a close friend of revolutionary Hristo Botev, was also present. Shortly after the war—in 1879—Stranski became the hospital's first manager, albeit only for a year. The hospital was enlarged and moved to its current location in 1896.[2]