Queen Mary Hospital (Hong Kong)

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Template:Use Hong Kong English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox hospital Template:Chinese 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 1,711 beds.<ref name=":0" /> 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.

History

Queen Mary 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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 second being designed by London-based hospital architects, Llewelyn Davies.

Buildings

Queen Mary Hospital's main ward tower, Block K, is one of the tallest hospital buildings in Asia at Template:Convert (28 storeys).

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.<ref name="aab"/>

Facilities

As of 31 March 2019, the hospital has 1,711 beds.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Services

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Treatments

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