The University Clinical Centre of Serbia (; abbr. УKЦС / UKCS) is an
academic medical centre
An academic medical centre (AMC), variously also known as academic health science centre, academic health science system, or academic health science partnership, is an educational and healthcare institute formed by the grouping of a health profes ...
located in
Belgrade
Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. T ...
,
Serbia
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. It serves as the main medical centre for both Belgrade and the rest of Serbia.
Organization
It contains 41 organisational units, of which 23 are
clinic
A clinic (or outpatient clinic or ambulatory care clinic) is a health facility that is primarily focused on the care of outpatients. Clinics can be privately operated or publicly managed and funded. They typically cover the primary care needs ...
s, 9 centers, polyclinic and other service units.
The complex also houses the
Belgrade School of Medicine and the Medical High School. Clinical Centre spreads over 34 hectares on the territory of
Savski Venac
Savski Venac ( sr-cyr, Савски Венац, ) is a municipality of the city of Belgrade. According to the 2022 census results, the municipality has a population of 36,699 inhabitants.
It is one of the three municipalities which constitute the ...
, and it consists of about 50 buildings, with a total floor space of 280,000 square meters (3,113,000 square ft).
The University Clinical Centre of Serbia has 3,150 beds,
considered to be the highest number in
Europe
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,
and among
highest in the world.
Annually, around one million patients are treated, 90,000
hospitalized, over 50,000
surgeries
Surgery is a medical specialty that uses manual and instrumental techniques to diagnose or treat pathological conditions (e.g., trauma, disease, injury, malignancy), to alter bodily functions (e.g., malabsorption created by bariatric surgery ...
performed, and more than 7,000
childbirth
Childbirth, also known as labour, parturition and delivery, is the completion of pregnancy, where one or more Fetus, fetuses exits the Womb, internal environment of the mother via vaginal delivery or caesarean section and becomes a newborn to ...
s performed.
As of June 2019, the health centre has 7,386 employees.
In August 2018, the
President of Serbia
The president of Serbia (), officially styled as President of the Republic (), is the head of state of Serbia. The current officeholder is Aleksandar Vučić, who was elected in 2017 and has held the role since 31 May 2017.
According to the C ...
announced that the
Government of Serbia
The government of Serbia ( sr-cyrl, Влада Србије, Vlada Srbije), formally the Government of the Republic of Serbia ( sr-cyrl, Влада Републике Србије, Vlada Republike Srbije), commonly abbreviated to Serbian Governme ...
is investing 110 million
euro
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s in complex' facilities reconstruction from 2018 to 2022.
On 27 February 2022, the renovated Clinical Centre was opened; total cost amounted 260 million euros.
See also
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Healthcare in Serbia
Healthcare in Serbia is delivered by means of a universal health care system.
History
1930–1991
The general reorientation of health services towards social and preventive medicine and primary health care was officially accepted in the ...
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List of hospitals in Serbia
This is a list of hospitals in Serbia.
Organization
As of January 2016, there were 306 public healthcare institutions in Serbia, operated by the Ministry of Health of Serbia. The ministry classifies hospitals into five categories:
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References
External links
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Hospitals in Serbia
Buildings and structures in Belgrade
Hospitals established in 1983
Savski Venac
Yugoslav Serbian architecture