Pohang Wooridul Hospital

Pohang Wooridul Hospital is a medical institution designated by North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, in 2016 and the first hospital in Pohang to been certified as a medical institution by the Ministry of Health and Welfare in 2013. It specialises in spinal therapy and research.

Scale of facilities

Number of beds - 95 beds
Medical personnel – 91
Operation of a foreign sub-specialty fellowship training course (neurosurgery, orthopedics)
Host of Asia-MISS (minimally invasive spine surgery
Operation of a Society for Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery Program (didactic course)

Specialized medical technology

Percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy
Percutaneous endoscopic cervical discectomy

Programs and services

Cervical

Percutaneous endoscopic cervical discectomy

Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion

Thoracic

Percutaneous endoscopic thoracic discectomy

Lumber

Percutaneous and open spine surgery

References