Gartnavel General Hospital is a

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in the West End of

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. The hospital is located next to the Great Western Road, between

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and

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is adjacent to the hospital. The name Gartnavel is derived from the

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History

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that were relocating while the hospital buildings were being demolished and replaced. The hospital was officially opened by Princess Alexandra in October 1973. Originally a single eight storey block containing 576 beds standing on a three-storey podium, further buildings have since been added, with the most recent being a new cancer care centre in 2007 to replace the

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facilities that were spread between Gartnavel, the

and the

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Brownlee Centre

The Brownlee Centre for Infectious and Communicable Diseases opened on the Gartnavel General Hospital site in 1998, replacing services and research laboratories at the city's

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. It is one of four laboratories in the UK on the

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list of laboratories able to perform PCR for rapid diagnosis of influenza A (H1N1) virus infection in humans. The Brownlee Centre was designated as the receiving centre for any potential

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cases during the

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. On 29 December 2014,

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, a British aid worker who had just returned from

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was diagnosed with Ebola virus disease at the centre. On 30 December 2014, she was transferred to the specialist Ebola treatment centre at the

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for longer-term treatment.

References

External links

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Gartnavel General Hospital on the NHS inform website

Healthcare Improvement Scotland inspection reports
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