Queen Mary Hospital | |
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Hospital Authority | |
Geography | |
Location | 102 Pok Fu Lam Road, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong |
Coordinates | 22°16′12″N114°07′52″E / 22.27006°N 114.13115°E |
Organisation | |
Care system | Public |
Funding | Public hospital |
Type | District General, Teaching |
Affiliated university | Faculty of Dentistry & Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong |
Network | Hong Kong West Cluster |
Services | |
Emergency department | Yes, accident and emergency and trauma centre [1] |
Beds | 1,711 |
Helipad | No |
History | |
Opened | 13 April 1937 |
Links | |
Website | www |
Designated | 22 January 2010 [2] |
Reference no. | 591 |
Queen Mary Hospital | |||||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 瑪麗 醫院 | ||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 玛丽 医院 | ||||||||||||||
Literal meaning | Mary Hospital | ||||||||||||||
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The Queen Mary Hospital is the largest district general hospital located in Pok Fu Lam on Hong Kong Island of Hong Kong. It is part of the 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.
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.
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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]
As of 31 March 2019,the hospital has 1,711 beds. [6]
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In anti-leukaemic treatment,it used oral arsenic trioxide. [8]
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