Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital is outpatient and hospital health care service provider in Riga

Riga

Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...

, Latvia

Latvia

Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

 In addition hospital plays a role in medical science and medical education

Medical education

Medical education is education related to the practice of being a medical practitioner, either the initial training to become a doctor or additional training thereafter ....

. The hospital aims to become a science and a training center to residents and prospective doctors.

History

Latvia's largest and most important hospital has changed it name eight times: since 1910 it was 2nd Riga City Hospital and the main teaching hospital of the Latvian University since 1928, during Soviet occupation in 1940-1941

Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940

The Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940 refers, according to the European Court of Human Rights, the Government of Latvia, the State Department of the United States of America, and the European Union, to the military occupation of the Republic of Latvia by the Soviet Union ostensibly under the...

 - National Clinical Hospital, then during German occupation

Occupation of Latvia by Nazi Germany

The occupation of Latvia by Nazi Germany was completed on July 10, 1941 by Germany's armed forces. Latvia became a part of Nazi Germany's Reichskommissariat Ostland — the Province General of Latvia...

 until 1944 again Riga Hospital, from 1944 till 1948 - National Clinical Hospital, then - Republican Clinical Hospital, from 1958 - Pauls Stradiņš Republican Clinical Hospital, from 1993 - Pauls Stradiņš National Hospital, from 1995 - the Latvian Academy of Medicine Pauls Stradiņš Clinical Hospital. And finally it got its present name - Pauls Stradiņš Clinical University Hospital. However since 1958 residents of Riga in daily life refer to the hospital by one very simple single word - Stradiņa.