Editing Cambrai (section)

==Health==
Medical density is quite good at Cambrai, when compared with the regional and national averages. In the agglomeration community there are 2.04 general practitioners per 1,000 inhabitants (Nord Pas-de-Calais region and metropolitan France 1.65), and 1.98 specialist doctors per 1,000 inhabitants (region: 1.39, metropolitan France: 1.74).<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.insee.fr/fr/regions/nord-pas-de-calais/default.asp?page=themes/tableau_de_bord/TB02camb.htm#sante|title = CAMBRAI : Communauté d'Agglomération |work =le site de l'Insee Nord Pas-de-Calais|date = September 2009}}</ref>

The Saint-Julien hospital, which housed the poor and the sick, was founded in 1070.{{cn|date=January 2024}} Today it remains as a chapel adjoining the municipal theatre. Over the following centuries, other hospitals were founded: The Saint-Lazare Hospital for lepers, the Charité Hospital, Saint-Jean Hospital, the Saint Jacques au Bois Hospital to welcome the pilgrims, the general hospice of La Charité founded in 1752 to accommodate the elderly, beggars and the marginalised.{{cn|date=December 2023}}

After [[World War II]], the construction of a modern hospital was envisaged.{{cn|date=January 2024}}

The Central Hospital of Cambrai<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.ch-cambrai.fr/|title = page d'accueil|work =Centre Hospitalier de Cambrai}}</ref> has a capacity of 770 beds and 108 seats. It employs a staff of 150 officers and has a non-medical staff of 1,200. Three annex buildings are reserved for medium and long stay, maternity (1982) and Psychiatry (1983–1884) patients. A Nursing Training Institute was opened in 1967.

The work for the construction of the present site began in 1959, the installation of the patients being carried out between 1966 and 1968.{{cn|date=July 2024}} In 2007, the work to modernise and expand the central hospital was undertaken.{{Cn|date=July 2024}}

The 2010 prize list of "the safest hospitals" places the Central Hospital of Cambrai as the 11th best in the national ranking.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.lexpress.fr/palmares/hopitaux/resultats.asp|title = Le palmarès 2010. des hôpitaux les plus sûrs|date= 10 December 2009|work =L'Express}}</ref>

Cambrai has three private clinics: The Sainte-Marie Clinic, Saint-Roch clinic and the Cambrésis Clinic.