Eleven single hospital campuses reported at 2,682 beds or more, led by the Philippines’ National Center for Mental Health at 4,200. Each is ranked by the capacity its operator or government reports, with the year of that figure; capacities change and the sources disagree, so the notes under the table matter.
Pictured: a still from ABS-CBN News’s report on service users at the National Center for Mental Health in Mandaluyong; it is #1 with 4,200 authorized beds.
Rank
Hospital
Beds
Year of figure
City
Country
Type
1
National Center for Mental Health
4,200
2014
Mandaluyong (Metro Manila)
Philippines
Public
2
Ankara Etlik City Hospital
4,050
2025
Ankara
Türkiye
Public
3
Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
3,986
–
Taoyuan
Taiwan
Private
4
King George’s Medical University hospital (KGMU)
3,875
2025
Lucknow
India
Academic
5
Ankara Bilkent City Hospital
3,704
2019
Ankara
Türkiye
Public
6
National Hospital of Sri Lanka
3,404
2020
Colombo
Sri Lanka
Public
7
Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital
3,200
2022
Johannesburg (Soweto)
South Africa
Academic
8
Taipei Veterans General Hospital
3,160
2024
Taipei
Taiwan
Military / veterans
9
Government Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode
3,025
–
Kozhikode
India
Academic
10
Ahmedabad Civil Hospital
2,800
–
Ahmedabad
India
Academic
11
Başakşehir Çam and Sakura City Hospital
2,682
2020
Istanbul
Türkiye
Public
No matching rows.
Read this first: these are reported bed capacities, not audited counts, and they change as wards open and close; each row carries the year of the figure where the source gives one (“–” means the source is undated). Figures come mainly from each hospital’s own site or its government, cross-checked against Wikipedia’s List of largest hospital campuses, and where they disagree this post uses the more official one and says so. The rule: one row is one campus or one named hospital complex on a single site; hospital systems and networks (Chang Gung’s 9,000+ beds across branches, say) are excluded, and so are institutions whose bed total spans several separate campuses. That is why two names usually first on such lists are missing: the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, which calls itself the world’s largest at “more than 7,000” beds but was reported in 2025 to be a three-campus hospital with 7,500 beds, and West China Hospital in Chengdu, which reports 4,900 beds across three campuses. Also left out because their totals could not be confirmed for one site: Cairo’s Kasr Al-Ainy (3,200 or 1,200, depending on the source) and the University Clinical Centre of Serbia (3,205 across several Belgrade sites). Ankara Etlik, Bilkent and Başakşehir are each a single named complex built on one site, so they stay. The National Center for Mental Health is a psychiatric hospital, and its figure is authorized beds. Rankings are by beds; the table stops at 2,682 because below that, more rows (for example Chennai’s Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, reported at 2,722 in 2013) rest on older or thinner sourcing.[1]
The Top 10
#1
National Center for Mental Health — 4,200 beds
The National Center for Mental Health sits on about 47 hectares in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, and is a psychiatric hospital, the only one of the top rows to be built for a single specialty. It opened on December 17, 1928 as the Insular Psychopathic Hospital. The 4,200 figure is its authorized capacity; the figures found put its daily inpatient count lower, at about 3,400, and the hospital is often reported as heavily congested. In 2021 the Department of Health added more than 900 beds on the grounds for mild COVID-19 cases, which are not counted here.[2]
#2
Ankara Etlik City Hospital — 4,050 beds
Etlik is an integrated healthcare complex of several specialized hospitals on one site, run by Turkey’s Ministry of Health, so it counts here as one named complex. Its own site gives 4,050 beds, 1,000 outpatient clinics, 125 operating rooms and 691 intensive care beds; a November 2025 hospital statement reported by Türkgün gave the same 4,050 beds with 771 intensive care beds. Several older Ankara hospitals were transferred into it from August 2022, and the hospital said it had served more than 15 million outpatients by late 2025. The video is from the Ministry of Health’s channel.[3]
#3
Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital — 3,986 beds
Linkou, in Guishan District, Taoyuan, is the flagship of the Chang Gung system; the hospital opened in 1980. It is counted here as a single campus, not as the Chang Gung network, which the foundation puts at 9,000 beds or more across its branches. Its bed count is reported inconsistently: 3,986 in the Wikipedia infobox, “nearly 4,000” with 29 specialty centers in a Taiwan trade-pavilion profile, and about 3,470 in another overview of the foundation, none with a clear date. Taiwan’s first proton therapy center opened here in 2015.[4]
#4
King George’s Medical University hospital (KGMU) — 3,875 beds
KGMU is a state medical university in Lucknow whose teaching hospital is, in the university’s May 2025 accreditation self-study report, “a capacity of 3,875 inpatient beds” with more than 60 departments and over 6,000 staff. Wikipedia’s infobox rounds this to 4,000 and its list of large campuses once carried 4,500, so the 2025 report is used here. Trauma, cardiology and orthopaedic wings have been expanding, and new buildings are under construction, so the number is rising. No official video was verified for this entry.[5]
#5
Ankara Bilkent City Hospital — 3,704 beds
Opened in March 2019 as a Ministry of Health public-private partnership campus, Bilkent was billed as Europe’s biggest hospital. The ministry’s own announcement gives 3,704 beds, 131 operating rooms and 904 polyclinics. Other numbers float around: 3,711 from a medical-equipment supplier, 3,810 on list sites, and “4,050+” from the building contractor’s marketing page, so the ministry figure is used and the others are treated as unverified.[6]
#6
National Hospital of Sri Lanka — 3,404 beds
Sri Lanka’s main public hospital, on a site in central Colombo, traces back to a “General Hospital” set up in 1864. Wikipedia’s 2020 figures give it 3,404 beds, 18 intensive care units, 21 operating theaters and about 7,500 staff, and the hospital calls itself the country’s largest teaching hospital. Older pages cite about 3,000 beds, a reminder that capacity creeps up with each new ward. The video is a report by the national broadcaster Rupavahini.[7]
#7
Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital — 3,200 beds
“Bara”, in Soweto, is the largest hospital in Africa and a teaching hospital of the University of the Witwatersrand; it opened in 1942. A March 2022 briefing to South Africa’s National Council of Provinces profiled it with “approximately 3200 beds” and about 6,760 staff on 70 hectares, while Wikipedia gives 3,400. Because the Gauteng government’s own briefing is the more official of the two, 3,200 is used. The video is from the national broadcaster SABC.[8]
#8
Taipei Veterans General Hospital — 3,160 beds
Founded in 1958 with 600 beds to care for veterans, Taipei VGH is now Taiwan’s largest national hospital by its own booklet. The hospital’s March 2025 handbook, giving 2024 figures, lists 3,160 beds, 6,891 staff and 68 operating rooms; Wikipedia’s undated figure is 3,000. It is the only row here under military-veterans administration, and it is treated as one campus in Taipei’s Beitou district.[9]
#9
Government Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode — 3,025 beds
Kerala’s Calicut Medical College hospital was commissioned in 1966 with 1,183 beds and is listed by the WHO South-East Asia Regional Office’s institute directory with a present bed strength of 3,025. It is a state government teaching hospital. A 2025 report says the state added 160 beds here as part of an 820-bed expansion at four medical colleges, but gives no new total, so the dated 3,025 stays in the table. No official video was verified for this entry.[10]
#10
Ahmedabad Civil Hospital — 2,800 beds
Opened in 1953 on a 110-acre site and widely described as Asia’s largest hospital, Ahmedabad Civil Hospital is reported to have 2,800 beds and more than 1.3 million patients a year. Counting the autonomous cancer, kidney, heart, eye and other specialty hospitals on the same grounds raises the total to about 3,500, which would put it higher up this table; because those are separately run institutions, the 2,800 for the main hospital is used. Some lists show 7,000 beds from a college page that appears to describe a wider group of institutions, and that figure was not used. The video is from Doordarshan’s Gujarati service.[11]
