Franja Partisan Hospital – the Cerkno museum in Slovenia

The complex of the Franja Partisan Hospital consists of 14 wooden cabins and several auxiliary facilities. These were built gradually from December 1943 to May 1945 in the narrow and not easily accessible Pasice gorge in the Dolenji Novaki village near Cerkno. The hospital was named after the partisan physician Dr. Franja Bojc Bidovec, who took over the position of administrator in the hospital soon after its foundation. This was one of the best-equipped secret partisan hospitals with a surgery cabin, an X-ray cabin, a handicapped care facility, and even a small power plant. It could take in about 100 wounded people. The total number of the patients, among which most were heavily wounded, was 578. The total number of patients in all the units was about 900 patients of various nationalities.