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Penang General Hospital

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Penang General Hospital (2011)
Penang General Hospital (2011)

The Penang General Hospital (Malay: Hospital Pulau Pinang) is the oldest historical and largest public hospital is since 1854, in the city of George Town in Penang, Malaysia. The largest public hospital in Penang, it also serves as the reference hospital within northern Malaysia.The hospital had its origins as a medical centre founded in 1854 for the poor and opium addicts.

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Penang General Hospital
Residency Road, George Town

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Hospital Pulau Pinang

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10990 George Town
Penang, Malaysia
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Penang General Hospital (2011)
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