Motol University Hospital () is a large
teaching hospital
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in the
Motol area of
Prague
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. It is the largest medical facility in the
Czech Republic
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and one of the largest in Europe. It is a major teaching base for students from the Second Faculty of Medicine, and also for some students from other faculties mainly the
First Faculty of Medicine. The nearby
Nemocnice Motol metro station is named after it.
This hospital has 2,410 beds. 860,000 patients are treated a year as out-patients and 70,000 as in-patients. The hospital is served by almost 5,000 staff.
2025 bribe affair
On February 2025 the
2025 Motol hospital bribery hit the news, in which Miloslav Ludvík, director of Prague’s Motol Hospital (Czechia’s largest medical facility), was dismissed on February 24, 2025, after being charged with bribery, subsidy fraud, damage to EU financial interests, and money laundering.The case involves 16–17 suspects, including Ludvík and his deputy, Pavel Budinský, who are linked to systematic abuse of public procurement processes for hospital construction contracts.
See also
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Bulovka Hospital, another major teaching hospital complex in Prague
References
Teaching hospitals
Hospitals in Prague
Hospitals established in 1943
1943 establishments in Czechoslovakia
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