Sen Jorj Avusturya Hospital
The story of Private Sen Jorj Austrian Hospital, which started with the treatment of patients near the Galata Tower by two nuns from Graz, Austria, during the cholera epidemic that started in Istanbul in 1872, still continues today with a friendly and smiling treatment approach.
In 1893, with the help of an Italian doctor living in Istanbul to the compassionate nuns, the first Pediatric Clinic in Turkey was opened, and in the following years, it turned into a hospital with the addition of the Eye Clinic. In the same years, a soup kitchen under the management of nuns continued to serve the public within the hospital.
Until 1914, an international committee, which included the Ottoman Sultan and the Austrian Emperor, undertook the works for the maintenance, repair and development of the hospital.
The Austrian Hospital, which continued its services in this way until the Republican period, continued to serve in the field of Pediatrics, Ophthalmology and the newly added Internal Diseases, Surgery, Ear&Nose&Throat Diseases and Skin Diseases in its renovated building in 1927.
Our hospital, which increased its clinical capacity with the additional building investment it made between 1995 and 2000, provides services in 13 different branches, including internal and surgical, with a capacity of 48 beds, 4 adult and 4 neonatal intensive care units, with the opening of the Gynecology and Obstetrics Clinic in 2003.
