The first director of the City Hospital in Novi Sad, which eventually grew
into the modern Clinical Center of Vojvodina, was Dr Aleksandar-Sandor
Sosberger, who was born in Novi Sad on September 13, 1873. He graduated on
the Faculty of Medicine in Budapest, and then trained in hospitals in
numerous European cities. The desire for learning and further training led
him to specialize in the field of gynecology and obstetrics, and he became
the first specialist gynecologist-obstetrician in Vojvodina. At the
beginning of the 20th century, with the sudden increase in the number of
inhabitants of Novi Sad, the existing hospitals were not sufficient for the
hospitalization of the patients, thus the City Magistrate made a decision to
build a new City Hospital in April 1907, the construction of which was
completed in 1909, and then built facilities are units in which some clinics
of the Clinical Center of Vojvodina are still located nowadays. It was
organized in such a way that it had Internal Medicine, Surgical,
Dermatology-Venereology and Gynecology-Obstetrics departments, with a bed
capacity of about 300 beds. Recognizing his comprehensive education,
experience, high expertise, intelligence and organizational skills, Dr
Aleksandar Sosberger was appointed as the first manager of the newly built
City Hospital. He was the first in the City Hospital to apply the Wasserman
reaction, and he installed the first X-ray machine in Novi Sad, for his
private practice. As the first gynecologist-obstetrician specialist in
Vojvodina, he made a great contribution to the introduction and improvement
of surgical techniques. Dr Aleksandar Sosberger showed that with dedicated
professional work and responsibility, great results and improvements in the
field of healthcare can be achieved, as evidenced by the fact that the City
Hospital, over time, grew into a tertiary healthcare institution, the
Clinical Center of Vojvodina.