Hudi Kot - Partizanska Bolnišnica Svoboda

6th and at the same time the last among the western mountain hospitals was built in April 1945 in Drča above Vuzenico. It was named Freedom or New Hospital. Unlike the previous ones, it was located in the Dravski Valley. The order for construction was given already at the beginning of March 1945 by the hospital reference officer at the 4th Operational Zone headquarters, with a note that it must be built at a distance from other hospitals, so that in the event of evacuation of the previous hospitals, the most severely wounded could be transferred to it; thus, they were especially instructed to keep the location and construction secret. For the builder and economist, they appointed the former head of the sanitary economics office, Valentina Pogorelčnik-Zdravka, who was allowed to select ten best individuals from the staff of all hospitals. The hospital had its own water supply and a specially arranged space with a bath tub and a boiler for heating water, which none of the others had. Although they took care of the location's secrecy, the locals soon found out about it, but no one betrayed it; on the contrary, during the construction, the local man came to the builders and warned them about the danger. In the hospital, ten wounded were treated, injured in the last battles for Dravograd, which Šercerjeva Brigade had witnessed. They brought them in when the hospital was still under construction. The treatment for them was obtained from Maribor and even from Gradec and Vienna. The hospital was built in 1945. In it there were two rooms: the operating room and the patient room. In the hospital, ten to twenty partisans were treated. The object was renovated in 2000. Source: Marjan Lenasi, Pavčkove partizanske bolnice, p. 36.

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