The Asklepieion was founded in 1921 as a sanatorium of the Greek Red Cross, for the treatment of tuberculosis of the bones and joints, as well as rickets. In 1948 it became a General Orthopedic Hospital and in 1985 it was incorporated in the National Health Service. With a personnel in excess of 1,100 and a capacity of around 400 beds, it now covers all fields of medicine.
The Asklepieion is the only Hospital in the wider region of Southeast Attica and provides medical care every day to many patients. Consequence of this situation is the constant need to upgrade its building infrastructure and to supply and install modern medical equipment.
The construction of the new building for the expansion of the A&E Department as well as the modernization and upgrading of the existing A&E, doubling its area, enabled the treatment of more patients and the provision of medical services of the highest standard.
At the same time, it created the first Resuscitation Unit in Greece. Its aim is the immediate support of the seriously injured patient and the carrying out of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions in the shortest possible time.
The building houses also a Urological Clinic with 23 beds and its support laboratories. In all these spaces, new ultramodern medical and technological equipment and hospitality facilities were installed, so ensuring the flawless functioning of the New Wing.
The new Unit for Intensive Monitoring of Cardiac patients has seven beds and now enables the medical and nursing personnel to give more effective diagnosis, treatment and care of patients with cardiovascular diseases, which are today the number-one cause of death in the developed countries. The Unit’s equipment is on a par with that of the major centres worldwide. As a result, the possibility of investigating the causes, the timely diagnosis, prevention and treatment of cardiac conditions has been significantly advanced.
Thanks to the radical reconstruction of the Artificial Kidney Unit (AKU), one of the Hospital’s most important departments, which had been suspended due to a functional problem of the central haemodialysis unit, resumed operation. The Asklepieion now has a fully renovated AKU with 18 haemodialysis beds, ultramodern medical-technological equipment and a new water-processing system, and is capable of providing daily services of the highest standard to dialysis patients.
