General informations  

Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital- Research Institute, in Łódź (Lodz) is one of the largest highly specialized medical complexes in Poland. The Hospital is composed of two major units: Gynaecological/ Obstetric and Paediatric and is a leading medical institute of perinatology, gynaecology, obstetrics and paediatrics. Owing to its multi-profile character the Hospital provides comprehensive management of risk pregnancy complicated by maternal diabetes, hypertension, epilepsy, heart diseases or infections, as well as of cases characterized by the most difficult gynaecological pathology. The entire spectrum of specialties in the care of woman (mother) and child till the age of 18, the state-of-the-art level of medical diagnostics, the annual number of hospital admissions over 40 thousand, the annual number of out-patient admissions over 180 thousand are only a few characteristics of this huge medical post.

The Institute collaborates with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education as well as Ministry of Health and participates in numerous national research programmes, of which those towards `Improvement of Perinatal Care` and `Prophylaxis & Early Detection of Uterine Cervix Cancer` seem most spectacular.