Alexandrovska Hospital

Alexandrovska Hospital is the first university and multispecialty hospital in Bulgaria and the largest hospital in the country. It was founded in 1879 and was named after Bulgarian Prince Alexander I Battenberg in October 1884. A military hospital between 1912 and 1919, it was the site where the Sofia Medical University was founded in 1917. Ever since its establishment in 1879 it has been a leading national university and medical center providing round-the-clock medical care for diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of patients with acute or chronic diseases, injuries, conditions requiring surgery in hospital environment, including plastic surgery. The clinical base of the hospital is used to train Bulgarian and foreign undergraduate and graduate students of the Medical University of Sofia. Only Alexandrovska Hospital conducts state examinations for acquiring degrees in the main clinicalfields. (Source:alexandrovska.com)