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About Tyks

Turku University Hospital (Tyks) offers specialised health care services in Southwest Finland, and ensures the availability of university hospital level services in Satakunta and Vaasa. Tyks is a part of the wellbeing services county of Southwest Finland.

Tyks – treatment since 1759

The Lazaret Museum tells the story of Finland's oldest hospital

The goal of the Turku Lazaret Museum is to record the history of the oldest hospital in Finland, functional without interruptions since 1759, as well as to preserve its equipment and to collect folklore of the hospital.