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On the eve of 1961, Hořovice celebrated the important day with a performance of Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville, which took place in the castle park. The opening of the hospital was opened by the citizens of the town and the surrounding villages with a festive procession that went from the square to the newly built hospital.
The weekly Budovatel described the event in its issue No. 28 of 14 July 1961: 'The hundreds of people who came to the opening ceremony last Sunday did not hide their delight and admiration at the work which the state had built at a cost of many millions of crowns. Joy and tears... expressions of thanks. Like a fairy-tale castle with all its riches, the new and modern hospital (the most modern in the Central Bohemia Region - editor's note by Jindřich Vlasák) is standing here to bear its fruits in the near future: to protect and return health to hundreds and thousands of workers in Hořovice."
Elsewhere in the article, the editor recalls, "Although the hospital looked quiet from the outside, inside it was full of bustle. The final touches before opening. Everything had to be dressed in white, washed and polished. And so there was nothing to do but walk through almost the entire hospital - in socks..."
"...I'm sorry, comrades," apologized comrade Křepel, who was showing us around, "it was too much work to clean up, and then, after all, it's a hospital!"
The inpatient part of the surgical ward was newly opened, and the operating theatres were prepared (one was tiled with white tiles, the other with pale green). Between the operating theatres, sterilisation. The children's inpatient ward on the ground floor of the hospital, the X-ray department and the kitchen and staff canteen were also ready for opening.
The Hořovice Hospital was the first medical facility to be built in the Central Bohemia Region after the war. The operation of individual wards was started gradually due to the lack of doctors. The capacity after the year of opening was 256 beds, 21 doctors and 95 paramedical staff worked there.
"I am glad that after 60 years there is still a modern hospital here, which not only brings health back to people in the Central Bohemia Region, but also helps patients from all over the Czech Republic," says Michal Průša, M.D., director of the hospital. "I am the ninth director of Hořovice Hospital and every year I am proud to see how the hospital is not only growing but also undergoing constant modernisation in order to provide the best possible care to patients."
