Health in New Caledonia

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New Caledonia's health system is relatively comprehensive, and at a level equivalent to the rest of France.

Hospital establishments

Public hospital centres

Since 2018, the Territory has had five public hospitals, divided into three institutions:

(1) The 4 establishments of the Territorial Hospital Centre (CHT) of New Caledonia, located on the Grand Nouméa, were grouped on a common site, the Koutio Medipole in the territory of the municipality of Dumbéa in the outskirts of Nouméa. The hospital has been opened in 645 beds and places, including 537 short stays, 71 day-care places and about 100 medium and long stays. Previously, the four former establishments had 516 beds and places in the , of which 457 were short stay (220 in medicine, 133 in surgery, 64 in obstetrics and 40 in critical care), 34 in medium stay and 25 in long stay, divided as follows:
CHT Gaston-Bourret : in the city centre of Nouméa, on the port, at the location of the former fort Constantine (first construction of Port-de-France in 1854), 267 short-stay beds (14 opened in 2008) and some twenty day hospital places,
CHT de Magenta : in the neighborhood of the same name in Nouméa, pole « mother - children' of the CHT by hosting the services of paediatrics, gynaecology, obstetrics and maternity, some 160 short-stay beds, 14 day hospital places and 13 haemodialysis stations,
Col de la Pirogue Medical Centre: located in the pass which gave it its name in the commune of Païta, in Nouméa, center of recovery and rehabilitation, 34 beds of medium stay,
Centre Raoul Follereau: on the peninsula of Ducos, center Hansenien, or leprosy, 25 beds long stay and permanently accommodates about fifteen sick.

2) The establishment of the Centre hospitalier spécialisé (CHS) Albert-Bousquet: in the Nouville district of Nouméa. It is both a psychiatry and geriatric centre, which has 263 beds (76 in geriatrics including 56 in long stay and 20 in medium stay rehabilitation, and 187 in psychiatry including 108 complete and 79 partial).

3) The 3 institutions of the Centre hospitalier du Nord (CHN): 132 beds of which 118 are in short stay (51 in medicine, 29 in surgery, 27 in obstetrics and 11 in critical care) and 14 in medium stay, divided as follows:
Northern health centre: in Koné on the west coast and inaugurated in 2018, 52 short-stay beds (20 in medicine, 14 in surgery, 12 in obstetrics and 6 in critical care) and a technical tray (operational block of four intervention rooms, a centralized medical biology laboratory, an indoor pharmacy, a medical imaging site and ten autodialysis stations),
CHN Paula Thavoavianon: in Koumac on the west coast, 42 short-stay beds (17 in medicine, 13 in surgery, 9 in obstetrics and 3 in critical care),
CHN Raymond-Doui Nebayes