Asfouriyeh Hospital was an institution that provided services related to mental and nervous disorders in Lebanon.
[1][2][3] It was founded in 1896 by a Swiss Quaker missionary in Lebanon, which at that time was within the borders of the Ottoman Empire.
[1] During the Lebanese Civil War, the hospital faced great difficulties.
However, the devastating impact of the civil war led to the hospital's closure in 1982.
The hospital's name is also used metaphorically in Lebanese political discourse, such as Prime Minister Najib Mikati's 2022 remark expressing hope that the opposition would not reach the "Asfouriyeh stage.