HISTORY

The University Hospital Farhat Hached, Sousse, Tunisia was created on the 7th of October 1942 and was set up as a Public Health Establishment since January 1, 1995.

It is a university hospital, and its mission of public utility covers care, prevention, teaching and research.

It is organized to bring all the time and in the respect for the social equity, the optimal supply of care, answering the criteria of public health, notably in quality and in safety.

At the sanitary level and in the public sector, the region accounts two university hospitals, one regional hospital, 5 district hospitals, 92 primary care centers and 3 centers for the mother and child protection.

In the private sector, the region accounts 4 general-purpose private clinics, one private clinic with single speciality and 323 doctor's offices.

One of the axes of the strategy of development of the region during the XIth Plan of development (2007-2011) is to strengthen the role of the region in the sector of the international cooperation.

KEY FIGURES

The University Hospital Farhat Hached consists of 26 medical and surgical services, 9 laboratories, and a capacity of 698 beds.

Staff:
Actually, 1661 agents among whom 220 doctors, dentists and pharmacists, assuring by their high professional qualification an optimal supply of care and quality 24 hours a day.

Budget 2007:

Budget: 34.000.000 DT distributed as follows:
Own resources: 3.500.000 DT
Contribution of the social funds: 12 500.000 DT
Subsidy of the State: 18.000.000 DT

Consultations in the Emergency service:
890545 cases distributed as follows:
Surgery: 42596 consultants
Medicine: 21100 consultants
Pediatrics: 17018 consultants
Genecology and obstetrics: 9 831 consultants
External Consultations: 183675 consultants
Admittance in Day hospital: 12360 cases

Indicators of activity associated with hospital admittances:
Number of admittances: 32404
Number of hospitalizations: 39161
Days of hospitalization: 182138
Average duration of stay: 4,41 days
Average rate of beds occupation: 75,27 %

COOPERATION

The University Hospital Farhat Hached is strongly convinced of its moral obligation consisting in contribution to and realization of choices and orientations of the State concerning the partnership and the international cooperation in research which are considered as privileged support to innovation.
The hospital has also a teaching and training vocation with medical ascendancy, associated with the whole and constant conviction of its professionals of the necessity to get more experience from other colleagues practising in the rest of the world. This conviction is justified by the particular interest which they grant to the cooperation and partnership.
That is why the University Hospital Farhat Hached concluded bilateral agreements with European University Public Training Hospitals:
* Public Hospitals in Marseille (France).
* SALT TILMAN Hospital in the Province of Belge in Liege (Belgium).
* Hospitals in Hambourg (Germany).


SERVICES


Internal Medicine - Cardiology - Surgery - Gynaecology Obstetrics

Oncology - Clinical Haematology - Pneumology - Dermatology

Psychiatry - Endocrinology - Otolaryngology - Ophthalmology

Rheumatology - Pediatrics - Neonatology - Medical Resuscitation

Surgical Occupational - Health Hygiene Service - Dental Medicine Resuscitation

Epidemiology - Legal Medicine - Radiotherapy - Radiology - Pharmacy


LABORATORIES


Pathology - Biochemistry - Haematology - Genetics

Microbiology - Hygiene - Physiology - Parasitology


RESEARCH

 

Research Unit
or
Research Laboratory
Head of the Unit
(Principal investigator
Project description
(Research theme)
Epidemiological transition and chronic diseases prevention Hassen Ghannem Tracking of cardiovascular diseases risk factors among school children
Medical documentary monitoring Hassen Ghannem Bibliometric study of Tunisian medical publications indexed in
Medical and economic evaluation of digestive surgery Jaballah Sakhri Morbidity and mortality in digestive surgery
Legal medicine Majed Zemni Clinical legal medicine : medical responsibility
Environment effect on allergic respiratory diseases Mohamed Jarray Respiratory allergies and role of the environment
Molecular genetics and human reproduction biology Ali Saad Molecular genetics of constitutional diseases
Genomic characterization of infectious agents Jalel Boukadida Molecular epidemiology of Tuberculosis infection
Exercise physiology and physical basis of rehabilitation Zouhair Tabka Rehabilitation and chronic respiratory diseases
Surveillance and monitoring of hospital infections Mansour Njah Epidemiological surveillance and hospital infection
Dental implantation in the southern Mediterranean region Mohamed Chedly Baccouche Dental implantation in Tunisia

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