Clinical Placements | Medical School
Nicosia General Hospital, Cyprus
The Nicosia General Hospital (NGH) is the largest state hospital in Cyprus, located on the outskirts of the countrys capital. It has 500 inpatient beds and covers a wide range of medical specialities, being the only referral hospital on the island. Offering secondary and tertiary health care as well as diagnostic and laboratory tests, NGH is equipped with the latest biomedical and laboratory technology and employs 2,200 medical, nursing, paramedical, technical and other staff.
Among clinical specialities and services at NGH are heart, vascular and thoracic surgery; neurosurgery; plastic surgery; a burns clinic; oral and maxillofacial surgery; transplantation; magnetic tomography; lithotripsy; and nuclear medicine.
NGHs departments include a state-of-the-art Intensive Care Unit; a fully equipped Department of Radiology; histopathology, cytology, audiology and nuclear medicine laboratories; physiotherapy, endoscopy and urodynamic units; a Department of Interventional Cardiology; and other clinical laboratories. Each year NGH admits over 22,000 patients and performs 7,000 operations, in addition to seeing 300,000 outpatients and over 130,000 emergency cases.
Nicosia General Hospital, Cyprus
The Nicosia General Hospital (NGH) is the largest state hospital in Cyprus, located on the outskirts of the countrys capital. It has 500 inpatient beds and covers a wide range of medical specialities, being the only referral hospital on the island. Offering secondary and tertiary health care as well as diagnostic and laboratory tests, NGH is equipped with the latest biomedical and laboratory technology and employs 2,200 medical, nursing, paramedical, technical and other staff.
Among clinical specialities and services at NGH are heart, vascular and thoracic surgery; neurosurgery; plastic surgery; a burns clinic; oral and maxillofacial surgery; transplantation; magnetic tomography; lithotripsy; and nuclear medicine.
NGHs departments include a state-of-the-art Intensive Care Unit; a fully equipped Department of Radiology; histopathology, cytology, audiology and nuclear medicine laboratories; physiotherapy, endoscopy and urodynamic units; a Department of Interventional Cardiology; and other clinical laboratories. Each year NGH admits over 22,000 patients and performs 7,000 operations, in addition to seeing 300,000 outpatients and over 130,000 emergency cases.