PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Oborný, Tomáš TI - INTRODUCING YOU TO THE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF OSTRAVA DP - 2007 Dec 1 TA - Biomedical papers PG - 357--357 VI - 151 IP - 2 IS - 12138118 AB - Historically, establishment of a medical facility in Ostrava dates from 14th August 1912 when the municipalities of Vítkovice and Zábřeh nad Odrou opened a jointly built but not very large Epidemiological Hospital.The hospital then underwent developments which were infl uenced by two world wars and the social and political events of the past century. A new step in its mission was achieved with a decision of the Ministry of Health to grant it the status of a University Hospital on 8th April 1992.