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Queen Mary Hospital, viewed from Hong Kong Trail, High West
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| 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[1] |
| Beds | 1,711 |
| Helipad | No |
| History | |
| Opened | 13 April 1937; 87 years ago (1937-04-13) |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Designated | 22 January 2010; 14 years ago (2010-01-22)[2] |
| Reference no. | 591 |
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| Traditional Chinese | 瑪麗醫院 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 玛丽医院 | ||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Mary Hospital | ||||||||||||||
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The Queen Mary Hospital is the largest district general hospital located in Pok Fu LamonHong Kong IslandofHong 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.[3] 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.
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.[4][5] The hospital was named for Mary of Teck, the widowed queen consortofKing 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.
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.[2]
As of 31 March 2019, the hospital has 1,711 beds.[6]
As of 2016[update], Macau healthcare authorities send patients to Queen Mary Hospital in instances where the local Macau hospitals are not equipped to deal with their scenarios.[7]
In anti-leukaemic treatment, it used oral arsenic trioxide.[8]
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