The San Lazaro Hospital (SLH) is a tertiary health facility in Manila, Philippines.
It is a referral facility for communicable diseases and is one of the retained special tertiary hospital of the Department of Health and is funded by subsidy from the Philippine national government.
[3] The San Lazaro Hospital was established in 1577 during the Spanish colonial period as a dispensary clinic in Intramuros by Fr.
[4] The King of Spain issued a royal decree moving the hospital to its current site which was then known as Hacienda Mayhaligue in 1784.
A chapel enclosed with stone walls was erected within hospital grounds by Fr.