Monklands Hospital
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Monklands Hospital by Elliott Simpson as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © Elliott Simpson Taken: 4 May 2002
Opened in 1976, this was the first "new" district general hospital to be built in Scotland post World War II - the others were new buildings for exiting hospitals.