Dr. Behçet Uz Çocuk Hastanesi

About Dr. Behçet Uz Çocuk Hastanesi

Dr. Behçet Uz Çocuk Hastanesi, officially the Dr. Behçet Uz Paediatric Diseases and Surgery Training and Research Hospital, is İzmir's dedicated public children's hospital, close to Cumhuriyet Square in central Konak. It is named after Dr. Behçet Uz, who as mayor of İzmir laid its foundation stone on 23 April 1938 and raised the money for it from the governorate, the municipality and public donations. The municipality handed the hospital to the Ministry of Health on 21 October 1946, when Dr. Uz was Minister of Health, and it opened on 2 April 1947. The building, designed by the architect Zeki Sayar in the modernist style, is well preserved and still works as a children's hospital. It played a part in the foundation of Ege University and its medical school, and today it is affiliated with the University of Health Sciences İzmir Faculty of Medicine. Wikipedia lists about 350 beds and an emergency department; the hospital also publishes its own scientific journal. Appointments are available through the national MHRS online system, which the hospital's website links to alongside address and phone information and doctors' working schedules. The main switchboard is +90 232 489 56 56.

• Official websiteChecked 2026-11-10
• Journal of Dr. Behcet Uz Children's HospitalChecked 2026-11-10
• Wikipedia - Dr. Behcet Uz Children's HospitalChecked 2026-11-10
• Izmir Provincial Health Directorate - institution recordChecked 2026-11-10