COMU Hospital, Çanakkale

The ÇOMÜ Hospital (more commonly referred to as Çanakkale University Hospital) is the biggest research and teaching hospital in the Western Marmara region of Turkey. It serves the area of north Aegean and South-West Marmara regions, with the current president and chief executive officer as Dr. Murat Coşar. The hospital is a 160-bed facility that provides patients with a complete range of primary and specialty care services. It is well respected as one of the leading community teaching and research hospitals in Turkey, affiliated with the Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (ÇOMÜ). The university hospital has one of the busiest emergency departments in the country. The COMU Hospital is staffed by 160 full-time attending physicians 124 of them are also faculty members of the COMÜ Faculty of Medicine. The University Hospital has more than 5,000 admissions, 2,500 births, and 215,000 outpatient visits annually.