Allgemeines KrankenHaus - general
hospital.
Lot's of hospitals in the
German speaking areas of the world call themselves {Insert
City name} AKH.
The Wiener
Allgemeine Kr
ankenh
aus (in
Vienna,
Austria) is commonly just known as Das AKH. It has a proud history that goes back more than 300 years, as it was founded in
1693 by the emperor
Leopold I.
It was meant to be mainly a plave for the poor and
disabled people, and in its early years, it had more than a
thousand regulars in
1696, when it opened for real.
The
institution was turned more into a hospital in
1784, and after two
world wars and more than 10
generations of doctors, it is now a fully modernised place in the
heart of Austria.