The University Hospital Center of São João (in Portuguese ''Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João'', abbreviated CHUSJ), or simply São João Hospital, is the main hospital of the city of Porto, Portugal, and also the

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and the

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. It's also a

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, the

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of the University of Porto. ''São João'' is the Portuguese name for John the Baptist. The São João Hospital gives direct assistance to the population of the ''parishes'' of Bonfim, Paranhos,

Campanhã Campanhã () is a Portuguese ''freguesia'' ("civil parish"), located in the city of Porto. The population in 2011 was 32,659,Aldoar, the councils of Maia and Valongo. It also serves as the main reference center for the ''districts'' of Porto (except Baião, Amarante and

Marco de Canaveses Marco de Canaveses () is a city and municipality on Porto district, in northern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 53,450, in an area of 201.89 km². The city itself had a population of 9,042 in 2001. Geography The city of Marco Canaves ...

), Braga and Viana do Castelo. It is the biggest hospital of the

, and one of the biggest in the country.

History

In 1825 the king

D. João VI , house = Braganza , father = Peter III of Portugal , mother = Maria I of Portugal , birth_date = , birth_place = Queluz Palace, Queluz, Portugal , death_date = , death_place = Bemposta Palace, Lisbon, Portugal , ...

created the Surgery Royal School of Porto. In 1883 changed to the name for Medical-Surgery School of Porto, with facilities next to Santo António Hospital.FMUP - Presentation (Sigarra)
/ref> In 1911 the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (abbreviated FMUP) on the Medical-Surgery School of Porto. On 28 May 1926, a ''coup d'état'' gave way to Estado Novo (Portugal) in 1933. A long process starts to build two big university hospitals, one in the country capital

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(Santa Maria Hospital) and the other in the capital of the north of Portugal, the second biggest city, Porto. The building of the São João Hospital was officially inaugurated on 24 July 1959 ( Festa de São João do Porto), by president Américo Tomás. Projected as a university hospital, it rapidly became a national reference, at the level of teaching and medical investigation, and also as hospital assistance to the population. All the faculty of medicine also moved to the building. The old building was used by other medical school Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute. The installing committee was directed by Hernâni Monteiro, anatomist and professor of the Faculty of Medicine, who had the honor of giving the first lecture on 9 November 1959.} In 1984 the São João Hospital was made honor member of the Merit Order.

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