Karolinska University Hospital

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Whenever traveling to a new and unfamiliar place be it for business or pleasure, it is always reassuring if you have a list of emergency contacts to be prepared for whatever coincidence may throw your way. One such emergency contact that a traveler should always have is a hospital. When visiting the City of Stockholm in Sweden for a spring vacation or a business trip for instance, knowing how to contact and where to find a hospital would be an invaluable information when an emergency situation does arise.

The Karolinska University Hospital is one of several premium hospital and medical facilities in the capital city of Stockholm. Since it may be difficult to make your way around an unfamiliar city, especially one like Stockholm which is comprised of 14 separate islands, knowing specifically where a hospital would save you a lot of time of driving around the city and asking Swedish speaking locals where a hospital may be found. The Karolinska University Hospital is found in two Stockholm neighborhoods, one is in Huddinge and the other in Solna.

This Scandinavian university hospital in Stockholm City is rather large, with about 1,600 beds available for patients and the service of more than 15,000 hospital staff members and employees. The Karolinska University Hospital can also be trusted to provide new medical services and to be equipped with cutting edge medical technology because of the fact that it is a premium university hospital.

It also delves deeper into researches and medical advancements thanks to the service of its 2,100 researchers. The area of research that the Karolinska University Hospital Stockholm studies is very wide. They research on such medical conditions such as heart diseases for older women and neurological diseases. They are also involved in studies about toxicology, occupational medicine, gender research, developmental biology and many more fields in medicine.