Hospital in the rock Buapest - Hungary
N 47° 30.042 E 019° 01.896
34T E 351757 N 5262685
The hospital was established in caves in the Buda part of the city. It worked as a hospital from 1944-45 and later in 1956 during the Hungarian uprising against the Soviets.
Waymark Code: WMTP6J
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Date Posted: 12/21/2016
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"In the 1930s, the hospital system was connected to the main tunnel system by manual labor. The main system had been in use by various inhabitants of the castle for many years, and was said to have been part of a penal system in centuries past.
The hospital saw its most heavy use during the 1944–45 Siege of Budapest, where it processed the wounded and the dead. The dead were sent out of the hospital at night and buried in bomb craters. The hospital was without food or medicine for some points during the siege, with hospital staff having to recycle supplies by taking them from corpses and sterilizing them before reuse. Eventually, horses were brought in and killed at the facility for food. The facility was designed to treat 60–70 patients, but at one point it was being used to treat 600 wounded soldiers.
After the siege, the hospital was only used once more in 1956 in response to the uprising against the Soviet rule. After that, the hospital was repurposed as a nuclear bunker, but one dedicated to keeping 200 doctors and nurses safe and available to treat the wounded. Nobody ever took up residence in the bunker, except for a caretaker and his wife. Because of this, the hospital museum now has a collection of anti-radiation kits, as well as some Soviet spying equipment, on display."
Source: wikipedia.org
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