Belfast City Hospital

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Belfast City Hospital (Ireland: OspidÃƒÆ'Ã‚ Â© al Chathair BhÃƒÆ'Ã… Â© al Feirste ) located in Belfast, Northern Ireland , is a modern university hospital with 900 beds providing local acute services and major regional specialties. The typical tower blocks dominate the Belfast sky into the third tallest building in Ireland (after Windsor House and Obel Tower, both in Belfast). It has a focus on the development of regional cancer and kidney services. It is the largest general hospital in the UK.

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Histori

Origins

City Hospital started life as a social house on Lisburn Street in the early 19th century.

The Belfast Board of Guardians began on May 11, 1841 and from the beginning provided a sick bed for the poor who had no access to health services provided by the government.

Workhouse Infirmary

Because it became difficult to separate the sick from the poor, the Hospital was developed into a House Doctor's Hospital, which soon had more than 600 beds. The largest number of patients in Belfast Union Infirmary was recorded as 4,252 on 31 January 1869.

Thomas Andrews

Dr. Thomas Andrews, who qualified as a physician in Edinburgh in 1835, was appointed by the Guardian at the age of 26 to work with an ever-increasing patient population and pay him Â£ 60 per year. Belfast grew into a city with 350,000 people in Victorian times but the city has problems with poor housing and sewage that causes at least four Cholera outbreaks. In 1847, the first Fever Hospital was opened by an enlarged Guard Board to 600 beds.

Fever Hospital

In 1849 all the febrile patients were removed from the Frederick Street Hospital ward and transferred to Infname Hospital or Fever under the current City Hospital. This decision means reducing the number of beds at the main Belfast General Hospital but the number of operations now being performed there is increasing. In addition to "fever" patients, Infirmary also agrees to take all patients with burns, and those with incurable diseases to the point where they were as many as 1,338 patients in 1883.

Hospital Fever treats cholera outbreaks, smallpox, tuberculosis, measles, diphtheria, typhoid, dengue and rabies. Number of nurses grew over the years even though they are often not trained. In 1867, there were fifteen paid nurses. In November 1884, Miss Ella Pirrie was appointed Chief Inspector and Chief Nurse. He knew Florence Nightingale and in December 1884 Miss Nightingale sent a Christmas gift to Miss Pirrie to the children at the Hospital. Not long after he was appointed, the Guardians approved a uniform for paid nurses, and a special apron for unpaid female servants. Under Miss Pirrie, nursing training started for the first time in Belfast and the first person, Miss Craig was sent to Dublin to undergo a nursing examination. Nurse Craig was appointed Inspector in 1892.

Infirmary building

The Infirmary Building was designed by Mr. Lanyon. The wards hold up to seventy beds, but they are so big that they are hard to heat. Maternity Hospital was first established at the City Hospital site by Dr. McLeish.

The National Health Service was created in 1948, and three of the Hospital Laboratory Assistants were among the last 45 from Workhouse Residents to serve hospital staff. After being orphaned and without the record of their parents, they are known as Pauper John, Skipper and Red Hand Rufus.

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Current hospital

The current hospital with a typical orange tower block was clearly opened in 1986. It is 15 stories high and 76 m (250 ft). It is located on a 32 acre campus (130,000 m ²). Hospital is internationally known for its cancer research program. This has led to the establishment of a transatlantic partnership between the City Hospital and the National Cancer Institute of the United States.

March 17, 2006 saw the opening of the Oncology Center.

It has four wards with a total of 72 beds. Most outpatient chemotherapy takes place at the Bridgewater Suite in the main tower block.

Since 2011, Belfast City Hospital has observed the permanent closure of the Emergency Department due to financial and recruitment difficulties, trust leading patients and ambulances to go to the Royal Victoria Hospital or Mater Infirmorum Hospital for emergency care.