Hospital de Dona Estefânia
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Hospital de Dona Estefânia (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɔʃpiˈtal dɨ ˈðonɐ ɨʃteˈfɐnjɐ], "Queen Stephanie's Hospital") is a public Central Hospital serving the Greater Lisbon, Portugal, area as part of the Central Lisbon University Hospital Centre (CHULC), a state-owned enterprise.
Established in 1877 in memory of Queen Stephanie, this was the first Portuguese hospital specifically dedicated to the healthcare of children, and it remains a national reference in pediatric specialties, both medical and surgical.[1] It serves the south of the country and Insular Portugal.
History
In the mid-19th century, the city of Lisbon was plagued with outbreaks of
The Queen's own premature death of diphtheria in 1859 did not allow her to see her project to completion: her widowed husband King Peter V ordered the construction of the new hospital in a plot of land originally belonging to the extensive grounds of Bemposta Palace. The king passed away childless one year later, and the Bemposta Hospital (as it was originally called) was unveiled by Stephanie's brother-in-law King Luís I, on 17 July 1877, the anniversary of the Queen's death, having previously ceded ownership of the hospital to the public.[1]
The construction of the hospital was carefully planned by a commission presided by the King, and comprising
When it was built, Queen Stephanie's Hospital was considered a model children's hospital, encompassing all the modern improvements in hospital construction of the day. Florence Nightingale wrote, on her Notes on Hospitals that "if children's hospitals are to be built at all, this is the kind of plan that should be adopted", calling its wards the best in Europe.[3] Bernardino António Gomes, the King's personal physician, wrote that "the Bemposta Hospital has the elegance not of lavishness, but of simplicity and harmony" and that "its magnificence is not that of luxury and sumptuosity, but that of hygiene".[1]
Marian apparitions
Queen Stephanie's Hospital is also notable for having been the place where
By February 1920, Jacinta had developed purulent left
References
- ^ a b c d "Hospital de Dona Estefânia". chlc.min-saude.pt. Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Lisboa Central. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
- ISSN 0027-2671. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
- ^ a b Nightingale, Florence (1863). Notes on Hospitals. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green.
- ^ Lebesque, Morvan (1952). Miracles. Madison: University of Wisconsin.
- ^ A detailed account of the lives, illnesses and deaths of Francisco and Jacinta Marto is given in de Marchi, John, The True Story of Fatima, 1950 edition, entire text on line, retrieved 19 October 2007.