The Health Sector Sservices In Aleppo - 1

First, I apologize for delay in posting; I have been in a couple back to back conferences and had a deadline to submit medical software I was working on.

Starting on this post I will try to cover all different aspects of the health sector in Aleppo.

Let us start with Hospitals:
As you know there are several categories for hospitals in Aleppo:

1. Governmental –

1. related to the Ministry of Health-:

مشفى زاهي أزرق: /120/ سرير

مشفى الرازي/ 200/ س

مشـــــــفى ابـن الـرشــــد /44/ سرير

مشـــــــفى ابـن الـرشــــد (( جراحة القلب : 140

مشـــــــفى التوليـــــد /100/ سرير

مشفى حلب الوطني (not sure about # beds)

مشفى العيون/ 60 / سرير

مشفى الأطفال التخصصي/120 / سرير

مشفى أبن خلدون للأمراض النفسية

Total beds= around 1000 +


2. Related to Ministry of higher education

مشفى حلب الجامعي (603 سرير)

مشفى الكندي (362 سرير)

مشفى التوليد و الأطفال الجامعي (175 سرير)

مركز جراحة القلب بحلب (75 سرير)


Total beds= around 1100 +

3. Others:

1. مشفى شيحان part of labor union

2. Private sector Hospitals:

Cannot mention them all, you probably know most of them. In another post I will dedicate one post for the “Syrian Hospital” which I think is worth discussing more.

Total number of private hospitals in Aleppo: 83 (YES 83)……….(this include all the charity hospitals as well)

I don’t have an accurate number of beds for those hospitals, but as most of you know the vast majority of those hospitals are small hospitals with around 20 beds total. For the sake of this discussion we will presume that each has 30 on average (this is a very optimistic guess)…so the total number of beds would be = 2490

The following is a map for all health services in Aleppo City taken from the Ministry of Health website.

Given the above mentioned number, and at best, the total number of hospital beds in Aleppo is around 5000. Given the number of Aleppo city inhabitants are around 2500000, so this brings the ration to 1 hospital bed for each 500 individuals. Although the number is even higher since as mentioned in the previous post a good number of the other 2.5 million in Aleppo Governance do depend of Aleppo city itself for their medical care. And also, here we are discussing numbers only; we have not really gone much into the quality, which (mainly in private hospitals) have a great room to improve.


Not to compare, but the ration of (population to hospitals beds) in the US was 3 TO 4 beds : for each 1000 per WHO data in 2006.




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