The University Multidisciplinary Hospital for Active Treatment “Dr. Georgi Stranski” – Pleven was established more than 150 years ago and is the largest medical institution for hospital care in Northern Bulgaria.

The hospital was opened in 1865 as a waqf by personal order of Mithat Pasha. The military doctor Dr. La Bruce was called by telegraph from Ruse, who supervised the construction of the hospital on the site of the imaret (orphanage) of Haazi Ali Bey. 40 beds have been discovered. The staff is minimal – Dr. La Bruce and two servants.

During the period 1865-66 the first civil hospitals were opened in Pleven, Ruse and Hadjioglu Pazardzhik. Dobrich.

During the Russo-Turkish War, the world-famous Russian medics worked on the Pleven Front: Prof. Pirogov, Prof. Sklifasovski, Prof. Botkin, Prof. Karol Davila and Dr. Georgi Stranski.

On 12.X.1869 Dr. La Bruce died of diphtheria. The hospital was headed by Dr. Robert Geyser, a Swiss by nationality, who ran it until 1877.

By decision of the City Municipal Council on 7.VIII.1879. Pleven II – class district hospital is opened.

The original manuscript of Dr. A. Drumev in 1898, in which it is noted that the hospital was built and opened in the autumn of 1864. or in early 1865

From 1.VІІІ.1879 Dr. Aleko Drumev was appointed district doctor and manager of the hospital / 1879-83, 1884-86, 1890-93 and 1896 /. Born in Svishtov and graduated in medicine in Montpellier – France. In 1879 he edited the first Rules of Internal Order in the hospital and the job descriptions of employees.

The then district doctor Dr. Georgi Iv was appointed the first governor / 1878-79 /. Born in Kalofer, graduated from military medical school in Bucharest, a close friend of Hristo Botev

The manager of the hospital in 1888-89 and in 1893 was Dr. Edmund Brzezinski – a Polish emigrant, the first foreign doctor in the city after the Liberation.

It was only after 17 years that the old waqf hospital became a primary hospital and on July 7, 1896 it moved to 7 newly built pavilions with 80 beds on the current site of the hospital.

In March 1897, Dr. Stefan Kozarov, a graduate of Kiev University, was appointed governor. For 15 years he created a new and exemplary hospital organization for his time. In the line of duty, he contracted typhoid fever and died on October 11, 1913. In 1897, he appointed the first compassionate nurses to the hospital. In the same year, on his initiative, the company “St. Pantaleimon” was founded to support the poor.