Tuen Mun Hospital | |
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Hospital Authority | |
Geography | |
Location | 23 Tsing Chung Koon Road, Tuen Mun, New Territories, Hong Kong, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong |
Coordinates | 22°24′28″N113°58′34″E / 22.40768°N 113.97600°E |
Organisation | |
Care system | Public |
Funding | Government hospital |
Type | District General |
Affiliated university | Tuen Mun Hospital School of General Nursing |
Network | New Territories West Cluster |
Services | |
Emergency department | Yes, accident and emergency and trauma centre [1] |
Beds | 1,935 [2] |
Helipad | Yes |
History | |
Opened | 8 March 1990 |
Links | |
Website | www3 |
Lists | Hospitals in Hong Kong |
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Traditional Chinese | 屯門醫院 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 屯门医院 | ||||||||||||
Cantonese Yale | Tyùhn mùhn yī yuhn | ||||||||||||
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Tuen Mun Hospital is a district general hospital in Tuen Mun,New Territories,Hong Kong. It construction began in 1979,and it was inaugurated on 8 March 1990. It is governed by the Hospital Authority,and it is main public hospital in West and North of New Territories,It is main part of New Territories West Cluster.
Tuen Mun Hospital was designed by the Architectural Services Department. It was constructed by Aoki Corporation,a Japanese civil engineering and construction services firm. [3] The hospital was topped out in a ceremony hosted by Sir David Akers-Jones on 28 August 1986,at which time it was the largest hospital under construction in the world. [4]
The hospital commenced services on 8 March 1990 and cost HK$1.2 billion. [5] The accident and emergency department opened on 30 July that year. [6]
This is a list of the current and former chairmen of the committee:
Appointed by the Hospital Authority,the Hospital Chief executive is in charge of managing the hospital and reports to the Hospital Governing Committee.
Dr Simon Tang Yiu-hang (1 April 2018 –present) [7]
As of 31 March 2017 [update] ,the hospital had 1,935 beds and around 6,487 members of staff. For the year ended 31 March 2017,it treated 174,586 inpatients and day-patients,776,713 specialist outpatients,and 851,943 general outpatients. [2]
The ground floor of the hospital is occupied by the casualty ward,and a day-care centre. The hospital has recently established a trauma unit and a neo-natal intensive care unit.
Tuen Mun Hospital also has a General Out-Patient Clinic or Polyclinic. The Yan Oi Polyclinic at 6 Tuen Lee Street is not to be mistaken for the fictional Yan Oi Hospital from the TVB series The Hippocratic Crush. [10]
Previously the hospital had the only operational helipad in New Territories,and one of the two hospitals in Hong Kong (Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital and Tuen Mun Hospital),however currently the helipad has been shut down and is being used as external storage following an expansion to the surgical units at the hospital.
It is one of the two major Radiation Emergency Treatment Centres in Hong Kong (Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital and Tuen Mun Hospital),and the only one in New Territories.
It is served by the Tuen Mun Hospital stop of the MTR Light Rail.
Tuen Mun District is one of the 18 administrative districts of Hong Kong. It is the westernmost continental district of Hong Kong. It had a population of 506,879 in 2021. Of these,64 000 are under the age of 18. Part of the district is the Tuen Mun New Town,which contains one of the largest residential areas in the New Territories.
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Yau Oi Estate is a public housing estate in Tuen Mun,New Territories,Hong Kong near Light Rail Yau Oi stop. It was the third public housing estate built in Tuen Mun between 1979 and 1982 on reclaimed land of Castle Peak Bay. Consisting of 11 residential blocks,it was the largest single subsidized housing development in Hong Kong,with 9,153 units and a population of more than 35,000.
The following is an overview of public housing estates in Tuen Mun,Hong Kong,including Home Ownership Scheme (HOS),Private Sector Participation Scheme (PSPS),Sandwich Class Housing Scheme (SCHS),Flat-for-Sale Scheme (FFSS),Subsidised Sale Flats Project (SSFP),and Tenants Purchase Scheme (TPS) estates.
The Architectural Services Department is a department of the Government of Hong Kong responsible for the design and construction of many public facilities throughout the territory. It is subordinate to the Works Branch of the Development Bureau and the current director is Mr. Tse Cheong Wo,Edward.
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Yan Tin Estate is a public housing estate in Tuen Mun,New Territories,Hong Kong located behind Siu Hong Court. It consists of five residential blocks,ranging in height from 33 to 38 storeys,and the Yan Tin Shopping Centre. It provides 4,688 rental flats catering to an approximate population of around 13,000. Tenant intake began on 23 March 2018.