Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

The Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires is a private hospital in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires. The hospital has 500 beds and provides an average of 2,000 patients per month on an area of ​​78,000 m². It is available for both private and social patients. The Hospital Italiano also maintains its own health insurance, which is equipped with 11,000 members one of the most important in Argentina.

The first hospital

The hospital was originally an initiative of a committee, consisting of members of the Italian immigrants make in Buenos Aires. The foundation stone for the first building was laid on 12 March 1853. The land was a gift of the priest José Arata. Count Giovanni Battista Albini was in the name of Victor Emmanuel I. 45,000 Argentine Pesos to the construction. The construction was delayed due to lack of finances again and again, until 1858, the club Unione e Benevolenza deputized.

1865, the hospital was almost completed when the Argentine government asked to provide Brazilian wounded soldiers from the Triple Alliance War. It was not until 1867, the construction work continued to be again disturbed by a cholera epidemic. The city government of Buenos Aires leased to the hospital for two years, to provide the victims of the epidemic. Then it was needed again for the care of soldiers, then a yellow fever epidemic. On December 8, 1872, the hospital was finally inaugurated officially.

The second building

The hospital administration concluded agreements with other immigrant organizations, so that other nationalities were treated there, whereby the premises were soon too small. A campaign has been launched to raise funds for the expansion.

On December 15, 1889, the foundation stone for the new Hospital Italiano was laid. For this was a plot bounded by the streets Gascón, Potosí, Palestine and Perón in today's district of Almagro available. Among the guests were, inter alia, to Elisa F. de Juárez Celman, wife of President Miguel Juárez Celman and a messenger of Umberto I.. On 21 December 1901, the building was inaugurated. 1903 a sister school was opened in 1905, the hospital was also School of Medicine and Surgery.

On September 20, 1913, the hospital was supplemented by a new building, the Policlínico.