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Location
  
Pietà, Malta

Emergency department
  
Yes

Lists
  
Hospitals in Malta

Phone
  
+356 2595 6801

Number of beds
  
850

Hospital type
  
General

Closed
  
2007

Address
  
Pieta, Malta

Founded
  
1930

Architect
  
Charles Holden

St. Luke's Hospital, Malta

Similar
  
Mater Dei Hospital, St Philip's Hospital, St James Capua Hospital, Spencer Monument, RNH Bighi

St. Luke's Hospital (in Maltese: Sptar San Luqa), was a general hospital located on Gwardamanġia hill, in Pietà, Malta.

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History

Its foundation was laid April 5, 1930, by the Governor of Malta, John Du Cane, in the presence of the Prime Minister, Gerald Strickland. Progress in the construction of the hospital was slow due mainly to technical difficulties encountered. By 1939, at the outset of the Second World War, the hospital was still incomplete and the work was suspended. Nevertheless, in 1941, the main block was converted into an isolation hospital for infectious diseases. The edifice, now given the official title of St. Luke's Hospital, had to cope with several epidemics ranging from measles to typhoid, typhus, poliomyelitis, scabies and ringworm.

By the late 1940s St. Luke's assumed its role as a general hospital with facilities for treating general medical, surgical, gynaecological and paediatric cases. In 1948 the radiology department was opened.

The hospital building is listed on the National Inventory of the Cultural Property of the Maltese Islands.

University of Malta affiliation

The Hospital served and catered for students attending Medical and Health Sciences courses within the University of Malta. The former medical school still houses the depository of pre-1965 monographs and all back runs of medical and nursing journals.

Replacement

As of late 2007, St. Luke's hospital has ceased to be Malta's main general hospital, having been replaced by the Mater Dei Hospital.

References

St. Luke's Hospital, Malta Wikipedia


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