The Red Cross Hospital or General County Athens Korgialenio Benakeio Hellenic Red Cross Hospital is a hospital in the homonymous district of Athens.[1]
| Red Cross Hospital Νοσοκομείο Ερυθρός Σταυρός | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Athens, Attica, Greece |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Publicly funded health care |
| Type | Clinical |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 185 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1930 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.korgialenio-benakio.gr/ |
| Lists | Hospitals in Greece |
The design of the building that currently houses the hospital was commissioned in 1923 to the architect Aristidis Balanos, while its foundation stone was laid on April 7, 1927. The construction was entrusted to a German company and the official opening took place on November 23, 1930. The date of first operation is mentioned the 15th of December 1930. Initially the hospital operated with 2 clinics (Pathology and Surgery) and 4 laboratories (Radiology, Biochemistry, Microbiology and Pathology). Its strength reached 185 beds. In the following decades, there were continuous expansions of the hospital, which reached its current form in 1978 with the construction of a 9-story wing.
It is worth noting that the administration of the hospital tried during the 90s to further expand its facilities by completing a building that had been unfinished for years at the junction of Mesogeion Avenue and Sofias Shliman Street. Nevertheless, and by decision of the Town Planning Department, the building in question was deemed unsuitable and was demolished with controlled explosions on May 22, 1994. In its place, the Erricos Dunan Hospital was built 6 years later.