New Amsterdam Public Hospital

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New Amsterdam Public Hospital
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New Amsterdam Public Hospital (1950)
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Shown in Guyana
Geography
LocationNew Amsterdam, Guyana
Coordinates 6°15′18″N57°30′48″W / 6.25500°N 57.51326°W / 6.25500; -57.51326
Organisation
Funding Government hospital
Type General
Services
Beds272 [1]
History
Opened1885
Links
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New Amsterdam Public Hospital in New Amsterdam, Guyana, is the country's biggest hospital after Georgetown Public Hospital.

It was described as a “timber architectural masterpiece”. [2] The building was later declared unfit to work and left abandoned. It slowly collapsed due to vandalism and deterioration. [2] Old location: 6°14′28″N57°31′18″W / 6.2412°N 57.5217°W / 6.2412; -57.5217

In 1893, the hospital had 150 beds, four sick wards (one designated for females) each with 24 beds with a window between each bed. [3]

The hospital moved to a new location in 2005. [4]

References

  1. ↑ "The Electives". Electives. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  2. 1 2 Guyana Times International
  3. ↑ Aicken, David (August 2001). "From Plantation Medicine to Public Health: The State and Medicine in British Guiana 1838 - 1914" (PDF). University College London. p. 53. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  4. ↑ "Old New Amsterdam hospital building to be a heritage site". Guyana Chronicle. Retrieved 22 August 2020.


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