About HUG
The University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG) brings together eight public hospitals and two clinics. Their mission is to provide treatment to the community in all medical disciplines, to help train doctors and health professionals and to carry out medical and nursing research. The HUG is Switzerland's leading center for influenza and emerging viral infections, as well as for childhood liver disease and pediatric liver transplantation. It is a WHO collaborating center in seven fields. In 2018, with its 11,730 employees, the hospitals welcomed 63,913 hospitalized patients and handled 125,417 emergencies, over a million outpatient consultations, 27,790 surgeries and 4,213 births. 977 internal doctors and clinic leaders, 2,186 interns and 217 apprentices are currently training at the HUG The HUG collaborates closely with the University of Geneva's Faculty of Medicine, the WHO, Lausanne University Hospital, the EPFL research institute, the CERN and other key players in Lake Geneva's Health Valley, on various training and research projects. The HUG's annual budget is 1.94 billion francs.
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