Laiko General Hospital, Athens, Greece

The Laiko General Hospital of Athens is a public teaching hospital in Athens, Greece, affiliated with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School. It was established in 1933 under the Ministry of Health, and it belongs to the Greek National Healthcare System. It is also a member of the EuroBloodNet (2023).

The Hospital is organised under three main sectors: Internal Medicine, Surgery and Laboratory Medicine. It also has 7 Centres of Expertise for Rare Disease:

1. Centre for Thalassaemia and Sickle Cell Disease – Rare Haematological Diseases
2. 1^st Propaedeutic Department of Internal Medicine and Special Nosology (Endocrinology Unit) of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens – Rare neuroendocrine neoplasms
3. Pathophysiology Department and Lab of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens – Rare connective tissue diseases and musculoskeletal disorders.
4. Pathophysiology Department and Lab of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – Rare systemic autoinflammatory and autoimmune diseases
5. 1st Propaedeutic Department of Internal Medicine and Special Nosology (Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases Unit) of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – Rare systemic diseases of connective tissues and musculoskeletal disorders
6. 1st Propaedeutic Department of Internal Medicine and Special Nosology (Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases Unit) of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – Rare systemic autoinflammatory and autoimmune diseases
7. 1st Department of Internal Medicine (Endocrinology Unit) of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – Rare endocrinological diseases

The on-site assessment of centre was carried out by TIF Medical Consultants on 29 November 2024.