[1] The hospital was established in 1865, before the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule, as a waqf treatment center under the personal orders of Midhat Pasa.

[2] Its first location was on the grounds of the local imaret, and its staff at the time consisted only of a foreign military doctor and two servants.

Nikolay Pirogov was among them, and Bulgarian physician Georgi Stranski, a close friend of revolutionary Hristo Botev, was also present.

[2] Its departments provide care in gynecology, a full range of internal medicine treatment, surgery, orthopedics, urology, otorhinolaryngology, ophthalmology, neurology, pediatrics, dermatology, infectious diseases and psychiatry.

[3] There is also a social robot that helps patients communicate with doctors when the latter are not physically present using online conference calls.