[Establishment and development of the Regional Hospital in Sarajevo 1894-1918].

The beginnings of the health institutions go back to the Ottoman period, to the second half of the 19th century, when the Bosnian governor Topal Osman pasha built 5 hospitals supported by the Vakuf. The biggest and the most important one was the Vakuf's Hospital in Sarajevo, built up, 1866 with 32 beds. The first modern hospital, built on that time contemporary principles is the Turkish military Hospital in Sarajevo, completed in 1866, too. The first schooled physicians were Franciscans, later some of them came from other parts of Europe (Dr Gustav Gal-Velibeg, Dr Regelsberger Alibeg, Dr Nisim Zak, Dr Pavle Kramer, Dr Albinus Simensen, Dr Joseph Kotchet and the first trained physicians Bosnians Dr Mehmed Serbić, Dr Zarif Skender, Dr Ishak Salom). By the arrival of Austro-Hungarian administration an era of the contemporary health service was organized here. The modern hospitals, for that time, were built. During the period in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 13 communal, 9 district and 6 area hospitals same to existence. The health service was organized according the modern European rules. Many doctors of that time studied medicine in Vienna, Budapest, Prague and other well-known European medical centres. Many of them spent their parts of the life in the health institution in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Many known Viennese and other European doctors worked in our health institutions, introducing their experiences to us, but achieve some new ones, for the Balkan pathology was a challenge for the foreign doctors. One of the biggest and most interesting institutions of the Austro-Hungarian period in Bosnia is the Regional Hospital in Sarajevo, opened on 1st of July 1894, with the capacity of 238 beds. It was rebuilt and adapted several times: Internal Diseases (chief Dr Geza Kobker), Surgery (chief Dr Joseph Preindeisberger), Dermato-venerology (chief Dr Leopold Gluck) and Gynecology Obstetrics (chief Doz. Dr Otto Weiss).