Maria Ziekenhuis
THE ABANDONED HOSPITAL IN BELGIUM
In 1930 a group of nuns started this hospital in a big house in the centre of the city Neerpelt. The small ‘Maria Ziekenhuis’ had only 9 beds and surgeons from surrounding cities came here to help the patients.
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The first surgeon of this hospital was hired in 1945 and it didn’t took long before the house was already too small. In 1950 the hospital moved to a new building with a capacity of 130 beds. The hospital was expanded 13 years later with a new wing with a children department of 40 beds and 13 private rooms. The hospital closed in 2005 after a merger with another local hospital. I took these photos of the ‘Maria Ziekenhuis’ or ‘HH1’ in 2007.
![Maria Ziekenhuis](https://www.urbex.nl/site/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/hh1-maria-13-980x654.jpg)
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