University Affiliated Hospital
Guido Valadares National Hospital
In Clinical Departments, you will experience how clinical teams work together to deliver patient care from beginning to end of life. Significant emphasis will be placed on preparing you for clinical practice.
Guido Valadares National Hospital (HNGV), formerly Dili National Hospital, is THE BIGGEST AND ONLY NATIONAL LEVEL HOSPITAL of East Timor.
It is located in the eastern part of the capital city of Dili. In 2003 the hospital was renamed after Guido Valadares, who was a government official of the Fretilin government in 1975.
The government has formalised the recognition of Guido Valadares National Hospital as a hospital that provides secondary and tertiary healthcare services to patients forwarded by regional hospitals from all of the national territory. The hospital is endowed of legal personality and administrative, financial and asset autonomy, integrated in the indirect administration of the State.
Healthcare professionals are from Cuba, Australia, the UNFPA, as well as local doctors. On a daily basis, English (HNGV’s working language), Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian and Tetum are used in conversation and in the hospital’s clinical notes.
An autonomous institution, HNGV is accountable directly to the Minister of Health, and is funded directly by the Ministry of Finance, A referral hospital where your clinical studies will be centred at. During your time here, you will learn practical clinical skills using the finest equipment and simulation facilities, which include a simulated hospital emergency room, clinical skills and research labs, pathology resource centre, organ demo room, and problem-based learning rooms.
