The Centro Hospitalar de Coimbra is a hospital centre in

Coimbra Coimbra (, also , , or ) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population of the municipality at the 2011 census was 143,397, in an area of . The fourth-largest urban area in Portugal after Lisbon, Porto Metropolitan Area, Porto, and Bra ...

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. This complex has a broad range of clinical services and medical specialties distributed across three main hospitals:

Hospital Geral A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emergency ...

(General Hospital), also known as ''Hospital dos Covões'', Maternidade Bissaya Barreto (Maternity) and

Hospital Pediátrico A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emergency ...

(

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). It is a branch of the larger

Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra The Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra (C.H.U.C) is a Portuguese public healthcare complex located in Coimbra, Portugal. It is composed by 6 medical institutions: Hospital da Universidade (the original University Hospital), Hospital Ped ...

, a merged institution created during the eruption of the

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and the Portuguese economic and financial crisis in 2012, that reorganized both the Centro and the

Coimbra University Hospitals The ''Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra'' or HUC (Hospitals of the University of Coimbra), is a university hospital that partners with the University of Coimbra, Portugal. This complex is known as a centre of research with a broad range of clini ...

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Centro Hospitalar de Coimbra
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