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Samsung Medical Center

Hospital in Seoul, South Korea


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Hospital in Seoul, South Korea

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Samsung Medical Center (SMC; ) is a tertiary hospital located in Irwon-Dong of Gangnam-Gu, Seoul, South Korea. SMC is composed of Samsung Seoul Hospital, Kangbook Samsung Hospital, Samsung Changwon Hospital, and Samsung Life Sciences Research Center. SMC was founded on November 9, 1994.

In 2015, it had a capacity of 1,979 beds and treated 85,208 inpatients and 2,027,211 outpatients.

In 2015, the hospital suffered an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome, and was criticised for its poor handling of the incident.

References

References

  1. "Facts & Statistics - About SMC - Samsung Medical Center".
  2. (2015-06-14). "South Korea hospital 'is source of many Mers cases'". BBC News.
  3. (2015-06-14). "Samsung stigmatized with MERS".
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