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Queen Mary Hospital
Hospital Authority
Queen Mary Hospital, viewed from Hong Kong Trail, High West
Geography
Location	102 Pok Fu Lam Road, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Coordinates	22°16′12″N 114°07′52″E / 22.27006°N 114.13115°E / 22.27006; 114.13115
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
Beds	1,711
Helipad	No
History
Opened	13 April 1937; 87 years ago (1937-04-13)
Links
Website	www.ha.org.hk/qmh/
Hong Kong Graded Building – Grade III
Designated	22 January 2010; 14 years ago (2010-01-22)
Reference no.	591

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. 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. 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.

Buildings

Queen Mary Hospital's main ward tower, Block K, is one of the tallest hospital buildings in Asia at 137 metres (449 ft) (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.

Facilities

As of 31 March 2019, the hospital has 1,711 beds.

Services

• Accident and emergency
• Trauma centre
• Anaesthesiology
• Clinical Oncology
• Cardiothoracic Anaesthesiology
• Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Ear, Nose & Throat
• Microbiology
• Neurosurgery
• Obstetrics & Gynaecology
• Oral Maxillo-facial Surgery & Dental Surgery
• Ophthalmology
• Orthopaedics & Traumatology
• Paediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
• Paediatric Cardiology
• Pathology & Clinical Biochemistry
• Psychiatry
• Radiology
• Surgery
• Clinical Psychology
• Dietetics
• Medical Social Work
• Occupational Therapy
• Pharmacy
• Physiotherapy
• Prosthetics and Orthotics
• Podiatry
• Speech Therapy

As of 2016, Macau healthcare authorities send patients to Queen Mary Hospital in instances where the local Macau hospitals are not equipped to deal with their scenarios.

Treatments

In anti-leukaemic treatment, it used oral arsenic trioxide.

References

1. ^ "香港聖約翰救傷隊 - 沙田甲、乙救護支隊".
2. ^ "List of the 1,444 Historic Buildings in Building Assessment". Antiquities Advisory Board. Hong Kong. 18 March 2024.
3. "Hospital Authority Annual Report 2016-2017" (PDF). Hospital Authority. 2017.
4. "Queen Mary Hospital: Foundation Stone Laid by His Excellency The Governor Inadequacy of Present G.C.H.". South China Morning Post. Hong Kong. 11 May 1935. p. 11.
5. "The New Hospital: Formally Opened for Public Inspection H.E. Sir Andrew Caldecott Performs Ceremony Meets Medical Needs". South China Morning Post. Hong Kong. 14 April 1937. p. 10.
6. "HOSPITAL AUTHORITY ANNUAL REPORT 醫院管理局年報 2018-2019" (PDF). Hospital Authority. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
7. Yau, Elaine (12 September 2016). "Why Macau spends millions to send its patients to Hong Kong – some by air". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on 9 April 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2017. - Print title: "Patients running out"
8. Au, W. Y. (2011). "A Biography of Arsenic and Medicine in Hong Kong and China". Hong Kong Medical Journal = Xianggang Yi Xue Za Zhi. 17 (6): 507–513. PMID 22147326. Retrieved 11 April 2020.

External links

• Official website
• Transportation Means for QMH
• Redevelopment of QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL, PHASE 1, Introduction

• Hospital buildings completed in 1937
• Hospital buildings completed in 1955
• Hospital buildings completed in 1983
• Pok Fu Lam
• Teaching hospitals in Hong Kong
• Hospitals established in 1937
• University of Hong Kong
• 1937 establishments in Hong Kong