Damascus University Hospital

Damascus University Hospital (Arabic: مستشفى جامعة دمشق mustashfā jāmi‘at dimashq) is the largest teaching hospital in Syria. It was founded in 1988 and is run by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Damascus.

The hospital has facilities for MRI and CT scan, a gamma camera and lithotripsy device. The operations ward contains 22 operation rooms suitable for laparoscopic and open heart surgery as well as computerized neurosurgery. Analyses performed by the hospital lab include hormonal, immune, tumour, pharmaceutical, and lymphatic tests; the hospital also has a stem cell bank, one of the largest in all of the Arab Union. The hospital provides medical, therapeutic and surgical services to patients. It is used to train students and graduate doctors from Damascus University as well as other Syrian universities, and contributes to scientific research.

Hospital activities include internal specialties, including cardiac, neurological, gastrointestinal and kidney. It also performs general, endoscopic, vascular and cardiac surgery, neurosurgery and urosurgery. It has a kidney transplant unit and a physiotherapy unit. The hospital contains 1330 beds, 100 of which are for intensive care, and has a special emergency ward for internal diseases. Despite being run by Damascus University's Faculty of Medicine, the hospital receives all its funding from the Arab Union federal government's National Health Authority (NHA).