President Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva attend the inauguration of Bona Dea International Hospital

Inauguration of Bona Dea International Hospital took place in Nizami district of Baku, March 27.

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva attended the inauguration.

President Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva became familiarized with the conditions created in the Hospital.

The hospital’s building consists of stationary and diagnostics sections. The stationary section is seven-storeyed, while the diagnostics section is four-storeyed. All basic medical service areas, such as cardio-vascular surgery, invasive cardiology, obstetrics-gynaecology, neonatology, paediatrics, emergency, resuscitation, artificial insemination, general surgery, orthopaedics-traumatology, neurosurgery, otorhinolaryngology, ophthalmology, urology, anaesthesiology, internal diseases, gastroenterology, neurology, radio diagnostics, medical laboratories, oncology, stomatology, blood bank, physical therapy-rehabilitation, and central sterilization are functioning in the hospital. The hospital has 206 beds. The emergency department is designed for 12 patients.

The Head of the State and his spouse met foreign physicians working here, and talked with them.

It is expected that a staff comprised, in general, of 850 people will be employed in the hospital. Of them, 22 physicians and 30 average medical staff are highly qualified specialists invited from Europe. These specialists are medical workers who are famous in the world in their areas. Among the medical staff working here are highly qualified physicians from USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Croatia, Serbia, Greece, and Spain.

A helipad has been built at the Bona Dea International Hospital for helicopters.

The medical equipment in the hospital have been manufactured by leading companies of USA, Germany, Japan, Italy, France, England, Sweden, Belgium and Spain. Among them are products of well-known companies specialized in the production of modern medical equipment, such as “Getinge Group”, “MAQUET”, “Siemens”, “Drager”, “Hill-Room”, “Olympus”, “Aesculap”, “Karl Storz”, “Sirona”, “Agoko”, “Abbott”, “BioMerieux”, “B-Braun”, “Swisslog”, “ZEISS” etc. This equipment allows performing precision diagnostics and, at the same time, building treatment activity at a high level.

Technological innovations have been applied at this medical establishment. Via the pneumatic post built here, samples of analyses may be sent to various departments, including reception and laboratories, and medicines to patients. The hospital has been designed and built to meet the highest quality and safety standards applied in the world - the JCI standards.

Total area of the hospital building is about 40 thousand square metres. The air conditioning, firefighting and video surveillance systems installed here cover the whole territory. This medical establishment is provided with uninterrupted electricity. Here have been installed a 1500 KV UPS system, and a 7000 KV transformer.

After becoming familiarized with the conditions created in the hospital, the President and the First Lady met with the hospital’s staff.

Then, a photo was taken.

President Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva made themselves familiarized with the emergency department of the hospital.

The Head of the State and the First Lady wished successes to the hospital’s staff.