The Central Clinical Hospital of the Medical University of Warsaw on Banacha Street turns 50

The hospital at 1a Banacha Street in Warsaw admitted its first patients on July 14, 1975. The first surgery was also performed that day. After nearly 19 years of construction, the most modern and largest hospital in Poland at the time was officially opened, the hospital announced.

In the statement, the hospital also emphasized that although it has been a medical facility forming part of the University Clinical Center of the Medical University of Warsaw for six years, patients still refer to it simply as the Hospital on Banacha Street.

"From the very first days of its operation, it has been the most dynamic medical and scientific center, conducting not only therapeutic activities, but also teaching, educating students of the Faculty of Medicine, future nurses and other medical personnel," we read in the press release.

The hospital announced that the Medical University of Warsaw Clinical Hospital, which includes the Central Clinical Hospital, remains one of the largest hospitals in Poland with the highest level of referrals. It treats patients with the most challenging health conditions who come from all over the country.

“It constantly follows new scientific trends, invests in the latest diagnostic tools, continuously trains its staff and ensures the highest standard of treatment and effective patient care,” it was noted.

The Central Clinical Hospital of the University Clinical Center of the Medical University of Warsaw "is 85,000 square meters, housing 17 clinics, an Admissions Room, a Central Operating Theater consisting of 21 rooms, five departments (Rehabilitation, Clinical Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Allergology and Immunology, Clinical Health Psychology), a Hospital Pharmacy and the University Center for Laboratory Medicine."

The hospital has 980 beds. In 2024, it admitted 66,866 patients on an inpatient basis. It also provides outpatient care. The CSK operates 25 Banach Specialist Clinics, which see over 147,000 patients annually. The hospital employs 957 physicians and 1,327 nurses.

The Central Clinical Hospital of the Medical University of Warsaw (CSK UCK MUW) is renowned not only in Poland but also worldwide. It excels in transplantology, innovative neurosurgical treatment methods, the development of minimally invasive techniques in interventional cardiology, pioneering work in otolaryngology, modern oncology, and the treatment of rare diseases.

Over the past half-century, groundbreaking, innovative surgeries have been performed here, such as the first simultaneous kidney and pancreas transplant in Poland (1988), the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy (1992), the first liver transplant from a living adult donor to a living adult recipient (2002) and the first kidney removal from a living donor using minimally invasive videoscopic technology (2003).

Here, for the first time in the history of Polish heart transplantation, the OCS Heart system (organ care system) will be used to transport the organ from the donor to the recipient, which allows for extending the organ transport time to 12 hours (2024).

In the same year, the first program in Poland to transplant one liver divided into two adult recipients was launched.

The hospital on Banacha Street also performed the world's first simultaneous transplant of three units of umbilical cord blood in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia with the Philadelphia chromosome (2004) and the first bilateral implantation of vertical implants in the treatment of total deafness in cases of multiple brain tumors (2010). (PAP)

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