Queen Mary Hospital (Hong Kong)

The Queen Mary Hospital, located in Pok Fu Lam on Hong Kong Island of Hong Kong, is the public district general hospital and teaching hospital of the Faculty of Dentistry and Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong. It has 1,706 beds.[3] It provides general medical and surgical services to the residents of Western and Southern districts and is a tertiary referral centre for the whole territory of Hong Kong and beyond.

Queen Mary Hospital
Hospital Authority
Queen Mary Hospital, viewed from Hong Kong Trail, High West
Geography
Location102 Pok Fu Lam Road, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Coordinates22°16′12″N 114°07′52″E
Organisation
Care systemPublic
FundingGovernment hospital
TypeDistrict General, Teaching
Affiliated universityFaculty of Dentistry & Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong
NetworkHong Kong West Cluster
Services
Emergency departmentYes, accident and emergency and trauma centre[1]
Beds1,711
HelipadNo
History
Opened13 April 1937 (1937-04-13)
Links
Websitewww.ha.org.hk/qmh/
Designated22 January 2010 (2010-01-22)[2]
Reference no.591
Queen Mary Hospital
Traditional Chinese瑪麗醫院
Simplified Chinese玛丽医院

History

The hospital had its foundation stone laid on 10 May 1935 by the Governor of Hong Kong, William Peel, and was officially opened on 13 April 1937 by Andrew Caldecott, the then Governor of Hong Kong.[4][5] The hospital was named for Mary of Teck, the widowed Queen consort of King George V of the United Kingdom. It then replaced the Government Civil Hospital as the main accident and emergency hospital for Hong Kong Island. The hospital was greatly expanded over the years, with two major expansion projects completed in 1955 and 1983, the 2nd being designed by London-based hospital architects, Llewelyn Davies.

Buildings

Queen Mary Hospital's main ward tower, Block K, is the tallest hospital building in Asia at 137 metres (449 ft) (28 storeys), and is the third tallest in the world, behind London's Guy's Hospital and Houston's O'Quinn Medical Tower at St. Luke's Hospital.

The Main Block (Wing A to E) is listed as a Grade III historic building. The Nurses Quarters is listed as a Grade II historic building.[2]

Facilities

As of 31 March 2019, the hospital has 1,711 beds.[6]

Services

As of 2016 Macau healthcare authorities send patients to Queen Mary Hospital in instances where the local Macau hospitals are not equipped to deal with their scenarios.[7]

Treatments

In anti-leukaemic treatment, it used oral arsenic trioxide.[8]

References
  1. http://shatinsj.org/ambaid/ambaid007.php
  2. "List of the 1,444 Historic Buildings in Building Assessment" (PDF). Antiquities Advisory Board. Hong Kong. 27 December 2013.
  3. "Hospital Authority Annual Report 2016-2017" (PDF). Hospital Authority. 2017.
  4. "Queen Mary Hospital: Foundation Stone Laid by His Excellency The Governor Inadequacy of Present G.C.H.". South China Morning Post. Hong Kong. 11 May 1935. p. 11.
  5. "The New Hospital: Formally Opened for Public Inspection H.E. Sir Andrew Caldecott Performs Ceremony Meets Medical Needs". South China Morning Post. Hong Kong. 14 April 1937. p. 10.
  6. "HOSPITAL AUTHORITY ANNUAL REPORT 醫院管理局年報 2018-2019" (PDF). Hospital Authority. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  7. Yau, Elaine (12 September 2016). "Why Macau spends millions to send its patients to Hong Kong – some by air". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on 9 April 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2017. - Print title: "Patients running out"
  8. "A Biography of Arsenic and Medicine in Hong Kong and China". nih.gov. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
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