The predecessor of Southern General Hospital is Central Hospital. The central hospital can be traced back to the central model military hospital established in 1929. 1930 65438+ 10, which was converted into a national central hospital by the Executive Yuan of the National Government and donated by Hu Wenhu, a Chinese businessman from Nanyang. It is the first modern national hospital built in China and the first national western hospital built by China people themselves in China. Ruiheng Liu, a former Minister of Health of the National Government, was the first president. During the Anti-Japanese War, the Central Hospital was moved to Changsha and Guiyang, and 194 1 moved to Chongqing. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the National Central Hospital moved back to Nanjing, stayed in Chongqing and moved to Guangzhou. Nanjing Central Hospital 1950 was changed to East China Military Region Hospital; 1955, renamed Nanjing General Hospital of Nanjing Military Region; 1986, renamed Nanjing General Hospital of Nanjing Military Region.
Nanjing General Hospital of Nanjing Military Region is the first batch of "third-class first-class hospitals" in China, and it is also the first hospital in China to set up a postdoctoral research center. Hospital internal medicine and surgery are disciplines with the right to confer doctoral degrees. Southern General Hospital is a clinical college of Nanjing University School of Medicine. Southern General Hospital is also the teaching hospital of the Second Military Medical University and other schools; The medical college undertakes the training task of some health professionals in the whole army and Nanjing Military Region.