The San Lazaro Hospital is a Special National Hospital Medical Center for Infectious Diseases with a 500 bed capacity. It is involved in health care delivery service, especially for the poor suffering from infectious diseases. It has a continuous medical training and research program for medical and paramedical personnel. Some of its short and long- term programs are infrastructure improvement and strengthening of its frontline services.
San Lazaro Hospital is committed to be the center of excellence for infectious and tropical diseases by providing its clients with comprehensive quality patient care, training, education and research services delivered with compassion, competence, dedication and professionalism based on statutory and regulatory requirements
The San Lazaro Hospital is a tertiary health facility in Manila, Philippines. It is a referral facility for communicable diseases and is one of the retained special tertiary hospital of the Department of Health and is funded by subsidy from the Philippine national government. It has a bed-capacity of 500.