page_title: Hospital El Salvador
section_title: Facilities
hierarchical_section_title: Hospital El Salvador / Facilities
caption_attribution_description: Español: National Hospital El Salvador
context_page_description: The Hospital El Salvador is a major hospital in San Salvador, El Salvador, and the largest hospital in Latin America. It was constructed between March and June 2020 as a conversion of the International Fair and Convention Center and forms part of El Salvador's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, exclusively receiving COVID-19 patients. Originally intended to be temporary, it was announced in June 2020 that the hospital conversion would be made permanent. In its first phase, the hospital has 400 available beds, a number which is expected to increase to 2,000 total beds upon completion of phase 3 of construction.
context_section_description: The hospital in its first phase currently has 400 available beds—105 intensive care unit beds and 295 general hospital beds—but the hospital is slated to increase capacity to 1,083 ICU beds and 2,000 total upon completion of phase 3 of construction. The second and third phases are anticipated for completion in August. The third phase will include the opening of a three-story building being erected on the former convention center parking lot.
  All COVID-19 patients being cared for at other hospitals were to be moved to the new facility to free up the national health system. However, a July report by the national medical association said it was only operating at 25 percent of capacity.
caption: Front entrance
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