The hospital is named after a resolution given by the executor of the estate of Susana Funes de Pizarro Lastra, a philanthropist who made a large donation to build a tuberculosis female establishment, provided that it bears her name.
Her executor, the notary Jacinto Fernandez, however determined to name it after her father, Domingo Funes.
Since its creation in 1939, the institution went through several periods, from being a national tuberculosis hospital, is now a provincial multispecialty and academic institution.
The hospital is named after a resolution given by the executor of the estate of Susana Funes de Pizarro Lastra, a philanthropist who made a large donation to build a tuberculosis female establishment, provided that it bears her name. Her executor, the notary Jacinto Fernandez, however determined to name it after her father, Domingo Funes. Since its creation in 1939, the institution went through several periods, from being a national tuberculosis hospital, is now a provincial multispecialty and academic institution.
Hospital Domingo Funes