Editing Cherbourg (section)

===Health===
[[File:CHPC Cherbourg1.jpg|thumb|right|The main front of the Pasteur Hospital.]]

Cherbourg-Octeville has two hospitals:

*The Pasteur Central Hospital, public, second establishment of Lower Normandy with 711 beds and places.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.recomposition-hospitaliere.sante.gouv.fr/d291205.php|title=Création du centre hospitalier public du Cotentin (CHPC) issu de la fusion des CH Louis Pasteur de Cherbourg-Octeville et de Valognes|language=fr|trans-title=Creation of the public hospital in the Cotentin peninsula (CHPC) resulting from the merger of the Louis Pasteur Central Hospital of Cherbourg - Octeville and Valognes|work=Observatoire des recompositions des activités des établissements de santé|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060203090046/http://www.recomposition-hospitaliere.sante.gouv.fr/d291205.php|archive-date=3 February 2006}}</ref> With a joint medical project since 2001 and a communal direction since 2003, the Pasteur Centre and the Central Hospital of Valognes merged in 2006 within the {{Interlanguage link|Centre hospitalier public du Cotentin|fr}} (2,000 officials, more than 1,000 beds, and a 2005 budget of €133 million)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ch-cotentin.fr/web/menuChiffrescles.do|title=Chiffres clés|language=fr|trans-title=Key Figures|work=Centre hospitalier du Cotentin|access-date=11 September 2015}}</ref>
*The Polyclinic of the Cotentin, at the border between Octeville and [[Équeurdreville-Hainneville]] (102 beds).

The Gros Hêtre medicalised residence for elderly (a branch of the public hospital in the Cotentin) and, since 1999, the Jean-Brüder Community Health Centre are located on the territory of Octeville.

In 1859, following the Imperial visit, the State decided upon the construction of a {{Interlanguage link|Hôpital des armées René-Le-Bas|fr|3=Hôpital des armées René-Le-Bas|lt=Maritime Hospital}} of a thousand beds to accommodate the troops in garrison. Opened on 15 February 1869, it was renamed René-Le-Bas, named after the first doctor who joined the Free Naval Forces and died in 1942 aboard the submarine [[French submarine Surcouf|''Surcouf'']]. It was closed in 2002 and renovated as a university campus.