Shigatse People's Hospital ( zh, 日喀则市人民医院), is the largest public hospital in

Shigatse Shigatse, officially known as Xigazê () or Rikaze ( zh, s=日喀则, p=Rìkāzé), is a prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Its area of jurisdiction, with an area of , corresponds to the histo ...

, located on South Jilin Road.

History

In 1955, originally for the Chinese people's liberation army with the army medical team and

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medical team, later reorganized as the People's Hospital in Shigatse was established. Subsequently, it gradually became the hospital with the most complete departments and the strongest technical force in Shigatse. In October 2017, the hospital's new compound was put into use, becoming one of the hospitals with the best hardware facilities in Tibet. In mid-June 2018, the Shigatse People's Hospital, which is supported by

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, was officially licensed as a "three-A" hospital, becoming the first 3A-level general hospital in Shigatse.

References

{{coord missing, Tibet Hospitals in Shigatse 43 Aid Projects to Tibet 2010s establishments in Tibet 2017 establishments in China