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During the incident, a shot hit an empty incubator in the hospital's intensive care unit. [8] [9] The hospital moved to more modern premises on the same site in December 1998. [10] In 2013 Finance Minister Simon Hamilton announced that a new children's hospital would be built on the same site at a cost of £250 million. [11]
The Queen Street RUC Station was a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) station in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 1933 to 2000. Before that, it was used as the main premises of the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children from 1878 to 1932. It has been effectively abandoned since 2000 and is visibly deteriorating. [1]
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The Belfast City Hospital in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is a 900-bed modern university teaching hospital providing local acute services and key regional specialities.Its distinctive orange tower block dominates the Belfast skyline being the third tallest habitable storeyed building in Northern Ireland (after Windsor House and Obel Tower, both in Belfast).
The Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (BHSCT) is a health organisation covering Belfast, Northern Ireland. The trust is one of five new trusts which were created on 1 April 2007 by the then Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS). The Belfast Trust employs 22,000 staff. [3]
Hospital matrons from 1903 to 1973 following the opening of the hospital on the Grosvenor Road have been as follows: [10] 1901–1922 Mary Frances Bostock: she oversaw the move of the hospital from its original site in Frederick Street. Bostock remained in the position of matron until her retirement in 1922. [10]
A landmine exploded outside the hospital leading to numerous casualties in April 1941 during the Belfast Blitz of the Second World War. [4] A new maternity wing opened in 1945. [2] Much of the fund raising for modernisation of the hospital in the 1950s was carried out by the Young Philanthropists Association. [4]
The facility has its origins in a private house in Donegall Street where a lying-in hospital was established in 1794. [1] It moved to larger premises in Townsend Street in November 1904. [1] The current facility was built on a site previously occupied by the Belfast Asylum, to the immediate south of the Royal Victoria Hospital. [2]