General informations
THE VENUE:
Ospedale S. Camillo- Forlanini
Auditorium “Agazio Menniti”
Circonvallazione Gianicolense 87
00152 Roma
THE HISTORY
The original idea for a new hospital, which was to become the contemporary San Camillo Hospital, goes back to the last years of World War one (WW1) and to the ominous spreading of the Spanish flu. In those dire circumstances, the building of a modern and large new hospital was deemed necessary and extremely urgent by the headquarters of the “Pio Istituto di Santo Spirito in Sassia e Ospedali Riuniti di Roma” (Pious Institute for the Holy Spirit in Sassia and Associated Roman Hospitals) the public health authority in Rome.
The Pious Institute entrusted engineer Domenico Caterina with the architectural and technical design of the new hospital granting him the clinical an hygienic assistance of professor Ettore Marchiafava, who was considered as one of the most illustrious physicians of his age.
The large hospital compound was ready by 1919, and was officially inaugurated by the Italian king Vittorio Emanuele III, together with the Queen and the Rome Mayor, Don Prospero Colonna, and was named “Ospedale della Vittoria” (Victory Hospital) to celebrate the favorable conclusion of WW1
In 1929 the hospital was enlarged, and got a new name “Ospedale Littorio” to pay homage to the then head of government Benito Mussolini whose fascist movement considered the “fasci littori” (Fasces), an ancient Rome symbol of power and authority, as a link between Mussolini’s Italia and a glorious past.
Finally, in 1946, after new buildings enriched the compound, the hospital has been named after S. Camillo de Lellis who founded in 17th century a religious order for the sick and is the patron saint of the sick, nurses and hospitals.
Today San Camillo Hospital is among the finest Italian hospitals over a wide range of medical specialties and utilizing the most advanced technologies. The hospital is home to the Regional Transplant Center of the Lazio region and to several Graduate and Postgraduate courses in health sciences
THE HISTORY OF S. CAMILLO HOSPITAL
The original idea for a new hospital, which was to become the contemporary San Camillo Hospital, goes back to the last years of World War one (WW1) and to the ominous spreading of the Spanish flu. In those dire circumstances, the building of a modern and large new hospital was deemed necessary and extremely urgent by the headquarters of the “Pio Istituto di Santo Spirito in Sassia e Ospedali Riuniti di Roma” (Pious Institute for the Holy Spirit in Sassia and Associated Roman Hospitals) the public health authority in Rome.
The Pious Institute entrusted engineer Domenico Caterina with the architectural and technical design of the new hospital granting him the clinical an hygienic assistance of professor Ettore Marchiafava, who was considered as one of the most illustrious physicians of his age.
The large hospital compound was ready by 1919, and was officially inaugurated by the Italian King Vittorio Emanuele III, together with the Queen and the Rome Mayor, Don Prospero Colonna, and was named “Ospedale della Vittoria” (Victory Hospital) to celebrate the favorable conclusion of WW1
In 1929 the hospital was enlarged, and got a new name “Ospedale Littorio” to pay homage to the then head of government Benito Mussolini whose fascist movement considered the “fasci littori” (Fasces), an ancient Rome symbol of power and authority, as a link between Mussolini’s Italia and a glorious past.
Finally, in 1946, after new buildings enriched the compound, the hospital has been named after S. Camillo de Lellis who founded in 17th century a religious order for the sick and is the patron saint of the sick, nurses and hospitals.
Today San Camillo Hospital is among the finest Italian hospitals over a wide range of medical specialties and utilizing the most advanced technologies. The hospital is home to the Regional Transplant Center of the Lazio region and to several Graduate and Postgraduate courses in health sciences