Po redaktohet Krujë (paragraf)

== Demography ==

The total population of Krujë is 59,814 (2011 census),<ref name="census11">{{cite web |url=http://www.instat.gov.al/media/3061/3__durres.pdf |title=Population and housing census - Durrës 2011 |access-date=2019-09-25 |publisher=[[Institute of Statistics (Albania)|INSTAT]] }}</ref> in a total area of 339.20&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>.<ref name="LAU">{{cite web |url=https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/345175/501971/EU-28-LAU-2019-NUTS-2016.xlsx |title=Correspondence table LAU – NUTS 2016, EU-28 and EFTA / available Candidate Countries |access-date=2019-09-25 |publisher=[[Eurostat]]|format=XLS }}</ref> The population of the former municipality at the 2011 census was 11,721.<ref name=census11/>

In 1922 the Director General of Health Services appointed the first director of health services in Krujë, Ihsan Korça while the last to hold the post before the establishment of the [[Socialist People's Republic of Albania]] was Abdulla Mehmeti. The first hospital and the first [[polyclinic]] of Krujë were built in 1946 and 1948 respectively.<ref name="dshsk">History of health services in the district of Krujë</ref> During 1968–69 a new medical laboratory and a department of surgery were added and expanded. In 1970 the Directorate of Hygiene and Epidemiology of the district was established in the town. In 1977-9 a new hospital and polyclinic were built, while in 1986 the first [[Obstetrics and gynaecology]] hospital of the town was opened.<ref name="dshsk"/> In 2008 the first hospital was rebuilt and renamed after its first director Stefan Gjoni.