Cebu Doctors’ University Hospital (CDUH), known as Cebu Doctors' Hospital until 2006, is a major tertiary private hospital in

Cebu City Cebu City, officially the City of Cebu, is a Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, highly urbanized city in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 964,169 people, making ...

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. The 300-bed hospital was inaugurated on August 20, 1972.

History

Cebu Doctors' Hospital is a comprehensive medical education and research complex. In the

Visayas The Visayas ( ), or the Visayan Islands (Bisayan languages, Visayan: ''Kabisay-an'', ; Filipino language, Filipino: ''Kabisayaan'' ), are one of the three Island groups of the Philippines, principal geographical divisions of the Philippines, a ...

and

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region of the Philippines, the CDUH was the first hospital offering

nuclear medicine Nuclear medicine (nuclear radiology, nucleology), is a medical specialty involving the application of radioactivity, radioactive substances in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Nuclear imaging is, in a sense, ''radiology done inside out'', ...

services, commencing in 1990. It was also the first hospital in the region to acquire a 64 slice MSCT, in 2006. In 2011 Cebu Doctors' University Hospital was accredited by QHA Trent Accreditation from the UK.

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Hospital buildings completed in 1972 Private hospitals in the Philippines Buildings and structures in Cebu City Hospitals established in 1972 20th-century architecture in the Philippines {{Philippines-hospital-stub