Vet hospital is a hospital too…here’s a very nice one:
http://www.fmv.utl.pt/fmv_en/fmv_en04a.htm
It’s also a vet college, situated in Lisbon just next to my old architecture college.
Portugal is full of old hospitals and it’s making an effort to build new ones urgently, altough they are very expensive projects and construtions.
To give you a general idea, of all the existing hospitals only one has an oficial quality certification.