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[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 ...
Government Civil Hospital, c. 1849 –1937; Sai Ying Pun Hospital 1937–1978; Lock Hospital, 1858–1894 – venereal diseases hospital; Cheung Chau Fong Bin Hospital, 1872–1988; Royal Naval Hospital, 1873–1949; British Military Hospital, Hong Kong, 1907–1996; Lai Chi Kok Hospital, 1938–2004; Hong Kong Central Hospital, 1966–2012
The HKU Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine [a] (branded as HKUMed) is the medical school of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), a public research university. It was founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, one of the oldest western medical schools in the Asia–Pacific region, and which served as the base for HKU's founding in 1910.
The Faculty of Dentistry is situated in the Prince Philip Dental Hospital, Sai Ying Pun. The university also operates the Kadoorie Agricultural Research Centre, which occupies 95,000 square metres (1,020,000 sq ft; 23 acres) of land in the New Territories , and the Swire Institute of Marine Science at the southern tip of the Cape d'Aguilar ...
The hospital was run by the military until 1922 when it was passed to the Department of Health. [3] [10] The name of the hospital became Queen Mary Hospital. [11] A women's ward (Chisholm Block) opened in 1926 and another men's ward (Rutherford Block) in the 1940s. [6] By the late 1960s most patients had alcoholism or addictions. [3]
The nearest public hospital, Tang Shiu Kin Hospital in Wan Chai, only had a small emergency department. As the number of critically ill patients exceeded its capacity through the 1960s to 80s, patients had to be rushed to Queen Mary Hospital or elsewhere for urgent treatment. The Eastern District had a population of 440,000 in the 1980s.
Hong Kong West Cluster (Chinese: 港島西醫院聯網) is one of the seven hospital clusters managed by Hospital Authority in Hong Kong. It consists of seven public hospitals, a rehabilitation centre and six general outpatient clinics to provide public healthcare services for the population of the Central and Western, and Southern Districts ...
In April 2009 three NHS Trusts merged, those of Queen Mary's Sidcup, Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Bromley Hospitals as the multi-site South London Healthcare NHS Trust. [3] In November 2010 the hospital's A & E Department temporarily closed along with the maternity services in the Kent Women's Wing.