The Southwest Hospital is situated in Gaotanyan, Shapingba District, Chongqing Autonomous Municipality, where Lialing and Yangtze Rivers are in conjunction with beautiful landscapes. It was founded in Nanjing in 1929, the former CentralHospital of old government before 1949, then moved to Chongqing in 1941 and was officially named in 1950. Today it is the first teaching hospital affiliated with the Third Military Medical University and also the First Clinical College as well. After more than eighty years’ development, the Southwest Hospital has become a modernized comprehensive hospital of a large type, occupying a size of over 300 Chinese Mu with 360 thousand square meters of building area, owing 2900 beds and sophisticated facilities such as Da Vinci Surgical robot system, PET/CT, 3.0MRI, Dual-Source Spiral CT, Magneto encephalography, Medical Hyperbolic Oxygen Chambers and Neuronavigation. The annual outpatient and emergence reach 3.20 million persons, 120 thousand hospitalized patients and 60 thousand surgeries. It has ranked among the first group in comprehensive capability in China and is coordinately developing in medical management, teaching and academic researching. |