Chatby Hospital For Children

Alexandria University Children's Hospital is the main Pediatric hospital in the North Coast Region. It serves as a tertairy referral center for four governorates: Alexandria, Beheira, Matrouh and Kafr El Sheikg. It has about 264 inpatient beds with more than 70.800 acute admissions a year in the ER.

The Pediatrics specialization started simple and modest at the time of the medicine College establishment  in 1942 their was only 11-bed in ElAmiry hospital, attached to the Internal Medicine Department under the leadership of Dr.Ahmed Osman Shoukry.

In 1944, the group was able to get the Children's Hospital in Anfoushy. Which called "Nazli" - from the Ministry of Health, where the capacity was 60 beds including outpatient clinics ,a radiology unit and an analysis laboratory. And the head of children department was Prof.Dr.Ahmed Shafiq Abbasi.
 

In 1970, the university set up a new hospital for children treatment in Shatby next to gynecology and obstetri

cs hospital. And it was officially opened in 30 July 1970. It is a large building component of 5 floors includes the reception unit,outpatient clinics, X-ray and laboratory, as well as unit for children surgery. And the hospital capacity became 180-bed. Then they added 2 more floors to the building. So the total number of beds became 288. as well as a unit for premature infants, a unit for polio and Unit for dehydration treatment , physiotherapy units and intensive care unit as well as Specialized medical library.

This specialization has gained a large share of progress where a large area in smouha assigned to the establishment of the new children hospital with capacity of 600 beds. The construction began in 1996.