{"id":4778,"date":"2026-05-29T13:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spitfog.gamait.ro\/?page_id=4778"},"modified":"2026-05-29T13:32:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:32:48","slug":"istoric-spital","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/spitfog.gamait.ro\/en\/istoria\/istoric-spital\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The history of the Hospital takes us back to the autumn of 1840. The Hospital's nearly 200 years of existence have been under the banner of continuous development and improvement.<\/p>\n

In the autumn of 1840, the Royal Judge of the Trei Scaune county received written instructions from the government, requesting him to present to the Royal Government the project for the hospital to be built according to local conditions. The necessity of building the hospital was imposed by the continuously deteriorating health of the population: infectious diseases were claiming more and more victims, and syphilis was spreading.<\/p>\n

According to the documents available to us, the royal judge is taking immediate action, and the engineer L\u00e1szl\u00f3 J\u00f3zsef, originally from the commune of Ozun, submits the hospital building project, a document that is actually a cost estimate totaling 1894 forints.<\/p>\n

The festive laying of the cornerstone took place on August 4, 1851, followed by rapid progress of the work, with the building being completed in March 1853. However, the opening was delayed due to the lack of furniture and other necessary equipment. Carpenters from the town of T\u00eergu Secuiesc undertook the free execution of the furniture, the kitchenware was also cast in T\u00eergu Secuiesc by the well-known master T\u00far\u00f3czy M\u00f3zes, and the linen was voluntarily made by the women of the town of Sf\u00eentu Gheorghe.<\/p>\n

According to the newspaper Kronst\u00e4dtter Zeitung from Bra\u0219ov, the hospital opened its doors on June 3, 1853, under the name Ferenc J\u00f3zsef Territorial Hospital in Sf\u00e2ntu Gheorghe.<\/p>\n

After the inauguration, immediately, the hospital begins its operations. In the first month, 31 people were already admitted.<\/p>\n

Regarding the first doctors, researchers found no definitive data, but works on health-related topics from that period state that \u201cthere was no shortage of doctors.\u201d At that time in Transylvania, there were 6 municipal and public hospitals operating: in Cluj Napoca, T\u00e2rgu-Mure\u0219, Turda, F\u0103g\u0103ra\u0219, Miercurea Ciuc, and Sf\u00e2ntu Gheorghe. These institutions admitted patients \u201cwho could justify their poverty.\u201d.<\/p>\n

The first physician was Dr. Wissi\u00e1k Antal, who in 1871 was elected town physician. The second physician was Dr. Bertalan D\u00e1niel. Wissi\u00e1k Antal was succeeded by Dr. Antal Mih\u00e1ly, and later by Dr. Kain K\u00e1roly, whose signature can be found on the first patient observation sheet from 1880. However, from that date onwards, there were also other types of information, such as reports on patient movement.<\/p>\n

The number of operations in 1882 is already 16, of which 5 were cases of skin cancer operated by cauterization, 2 cases of inguinal hernia, etc. From the report on patient movement for the year 1882 (compared to 1862), a year in which 408 patients were hospitalized, it can be concluded that the number of beds stagnated over the 20-year period.<\/p>\n

In 1884, the competition announced for the position of hospital consultant doctor was won by Dr. Daday Vilmos, an assistant professor from Cluj Napoca. He worked for 32 years as a doctor in Sf\u00e2ntu Gheorghe, and his work left its mark on the functioning of the entire institution.<\/p>\n

What did the hospital look like during Dr. Daday Vilmos's time?<\/h2>\n

After a description from 1891, the \u201cPoor's Ward\u201d section was located in the hospital's basement. The ground floor housed the women's wards, the rooms of the assistant physician and the steward, while the first floor contained the men's wards and the chief physician's residence. At that time, the hospital had 10 wards with 70 beds. At the initiative of Doctor Daday, running water was introduced in 1898, the courtyard was transformed into a park, and a telephone line was installed in 1905.<\/p>\n

The hospital thus had 2 doctors, Daday and Wissiak, then Daday and Antal. J\u00f3zsef Benk\u0151 was the administrator. The work of the 2 doctors was assisted by female orderlies for male patients and by 2 nurses for female patients. There seems to have been little auxiliary staff. In 1885, 372 patients were treated with 8,957 days of hospitalization.<\/p>\n

Following the death of administrator Benk\u0151 J\u00f3zsef, no one else is hired, and his salary is partially received by the chief physician, to further incentivize him in fulfilling the administrator's duties.<\/p>\n

It is worth remembering that even the first Hospital Regulation was drawn up by Dr. Daday Vilmos in 1900.<\/p>\n

It can be concluded that Dr. Daday Vilmos was, in his time, a physician with exceptional qualities, working under difficult and nascent conditions. Nevertheless, from a report dated 1906, one can read that \u201call patients operated on recovered and left the hospital in an improved state.\u201d.<\/p>\n

On February 10, 1906, a new resident doctor at the hospital in Sf\u00e2ntu Gheorghe, Dr. Fogoly\u00e1n Krist\u00f3f, began his work. His life and career were closely tied to the life of the town and the hospital.<\/p>\n

In 1912, Dr. Fogoly\u00e1n Krist\u00f3f traveled to Budapest and, at his insistence, the government approved the project for building a new hospital and allocated 400,000 crowns for construction. Despite the outbreak of World War I, construction was nevertheless begun. After the end of World War I, the first step was to put into service the infectious diseases ward with 20 beds and a new operating block.<\/p>\n

At the request of Dr. Fogoly\u00e1n, the renowned architect, writer, and historian K\u00f3s K\u00e1roly also designed a new \u201cMother and Child\u201d pavilion. From 1926 onwards, the expansion of the hospital complex stagnated.<\/p>\n

In 1937, Bidu Valer took over the management of the hospital. At his intervention, the Minister of Health decided to complete the hospital's construction. After 1939, Dr. Fogoly\u00e1n Krist\u00f3f returned to the hospital's management, establishing the surgery department, the internal medicine department, the infectious diseases department, a 10-bed maternity ward, and a laboratory. Medical assistance within the maternity ward was also provided by Dr. Fogoly\u00e1n Krist\u00f3f, who served concurrently as both a surgeon and a gynecologist.<\/p>\n

For equipping the laboratory, he also took care of procuring a diagnostic X-ray machine, a KROGH apparatus, and an electrocardiograph. Current and modern analyses such as blood glucose, cholesterol, and residual nitrogen evaluation could be performed in the medical laboratory. After 1939, Dr. Koczka \u00c1rp\u00e1d, a good colleague and collaborator of Dr. Fogoly\u00e1n Krist\u00f3f, was appointed head of the Internal Medicine Department. Dr. Gyergyai Jen\u0151, Dr. Nussbaum L\u00e1szl\u00f3, and Dr. Csavar Hajnal worked as resident physicians in the hospital.<\/p>\n

In 1943, construction and installation work on the hospital was completed. It was now almost fully equipped and furnished, but World War II caused almost everything movable to disappear.<\/p>\n

After the war, in 1945, the establishment of the mother and child protection network was entrusted to Dr. Fogoly\u00e1n, with Dr. Csutak S\u00e1muel as a good collaborator.<\/p>\n

In the period after 1948, the pediatrics, surgery, internal medicine, and obstetrics-gynecology, and ENT departments were established separately, while dermatology, the infectious diseases department, and the TBC department with 50 beds moved to another building. The outpatient clinic was also put into operation.<\/p>\n

A special event took place in the summer of 1975, when the new 430-bed hospital was put into operation. In 2006, the total number of beds reached 748, with a total staff of 892 people, of whom 128 were doctors.<\/p>\n

In celebration of the hospital's 145th anniversary, we aimed to revive and carry forward, according to the demands of the era, an ideal that has always been characteristic of the city of Sfintu Gheorghe: the improvement of healthcare. To this end, on January 28, 1993, the \u201cSzent Gy\u00f6rgy\u201d Hospital Foundation was established in the municipality of Sfintu Gheorghe. It is a non-political association with humanitarian concerns. Any honest citizen, from within the country or abroad, who works in the healthcare field or not, as well as any institution, commercial company, association, or religious community that adopts the foundation's program and assures us of its moral, spiritual, and material support, can become a member of this association.<\/p>\n

The foundation aims to improve the quality of healthcare, develop the material base and environmental conditions offered to patients, highlight issues of medical sociology, systematically spread health education, better utilize natural resources with therapeutic potential, combat alcoholism, maintain collaborative relationships with the \u201cEngedj\u00e9tek hozz\u00e1m a kisgyermekeket\u201d (\u201cLet the children come to me\u201d) Foundation in B\u00e9k\u00e9scsaba (Hungary), and pursue other similar objectives.<\/p>\n

In a first phase, the emergency service and the medical analysis laboratory were endowed with the donated funds.<\/p>\n

Starting in March 2005, the Hospital changed its name from Sf\u00e2ntu Gheorghe County Hospital to \u201eDr. Fogoly\u00e1n Krist\u00f3f\u201d Sf\u00e2ntu Gheorghe County Hospital, based on the Minister of Health's Order no. 136 of 25.02.2005.<\/p>\n

Starting on 01.10.2007, the unit becomes an EMERGENCY hospital, based on O.M.S. no. 1276\/16.07.2007<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Istoria Spitalului ne \u00eentoarce \u00een timp spre toamna anului 1840. Cei aproape 200 de ani de existen\u0163\u0103 a Spitalului au trecut sub egida dezvolt\u0103rii \u015fi \u00eembun\u0103t\u0103\u0163irii continue. \u00cen toamna anului 1840, Judele regal al \u0163inutului Trei Scaune, prime\u015fte instruc\u0163iuni scrise de la guvern, fiind solicitat s\u0103 prezinte Guvernului Regal, proiectul spitalului ce se va construi","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4776,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4778","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spitfog.gamait.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spitfog.gamait.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spitfog.gamait.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spitfog.gamait.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spitfog.gamait.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spitfog.gamait.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4780,"href":"https:\/\/spitfog.gamait.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4778\/revisions\/4780"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spitfog.gamait.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spitfog.gamait.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}