<P> The earliest surviving encyclopaedia of medicine in Sanskrit is the Carakasamhita ( Compendium of Caraka ) . This text , which describes the building of a hospital is dated by the medical historian Dominik Wujastyk to the period between 100 BCE and 150 CE . The description by Fa Xian is one of the earliest accounts of a civic hospital system anywhere in the world and this evidence , coupled with Caraka 's description of how a clinic should be built and equipped , suggests that India may have been the first part of the world to have evolved an organized cosmopolitan system of institutionally - based medical provision . </P>
<P> The earliest surviving encyclopaedia of medicine in Sanskrit is the Carakasamhita ( Compendium of Caraka ) . This text , which describes the building of a hospital is dated by the medical historian Dominik Wujastyk to the period between 100 BCE and 150 CE . The description by Fa Xian is one of the earliest accounts of a civic hospital system anywhere in the world and this evidence , coupled with Caraka 's description of how a clinic should be built and equipped , suggests that India may have been the first part of the world to have evolved an organized cosmopolitan system of institutionally - based medical provision . </P>
where was the first hospital built in the world
where was the first hospital built in the world
India
India