[The Danube Hospital in the East Social Medicine Center. Planning, construction and completion].

The Danube Hospital is part of a sociomedical center in East Vienna and was conceived to provide medical care for the transdanubian area of the city. In a planned stepwise operation both Depts. of Medicine, the Dept. of Surgery, the Dept. of Traumatology, the Dept. of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, the Dept. of Pediatrics, the Dept. of Pediatric Surgery, the Dept. of Neurology, the Dept. of Physiotherapy, the Dept. of Anaesthesia, the Dept. of Radiology, the Dept. of Laboratory Medicine, the Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, the Dept. of Pathology and Bacteriology, and the hospital pharmacy were opened in April 1992. Both the Dept. of Ear, Nose and Throat and the Dept. of Urology are due to open at the beginning of 1993, while the Dept. of Ophthalmology, the Dept. of Dermatology, the Dept. of Orthopedics, the Dept. of Maxillary Surgery and Dentistry and the Dept. of Neurosurgery will start operation in 1994. With the opening of the Dept. of Psychiatry in 1996 the Danube Hospital will be fully operative. By that time 920 beds, with an additional 59 functional beds (Intensive Care Units, Neonatology, Dialysis Ward, and Admission Unit) will be in operation.