Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kota Kinabalu
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The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (Malay: Hospital Queen Elizabeth) in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah is the main public hospital for the city and the whole of Sabah as well as the alternate feeder general hospital for the neighbouring Federal Territory of Labuan (although they have a main one known as Hospital Labuan), but also accommodates patients from the neighbouring state of Sarawak as well as far as the neighbouring countries/regions of Brunei and also North Kalimantan, Indonesia (which makes both hospitals combined as one of the pan-Borneo general public hospitals), the other being the Sarawak General Hospital in Kuching, Sarawak.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital | |
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Geography | |
Location | Kepayan Ridge (QEH 1) and Damai (QEH 2), Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia |
Coordinates | 5°57′24″N 116°4′24″E (QEH 1) 5°58′0″N 116°5′37″E (QEH 2) |
Organisation | |
Care system | Government hospital |
Funding | Ministry of Health |
Services | |
Beds | 779 (QEH 1) 400 (QEH 2)[1] |
History | |
Opened | 1981 (QEH 1) 2009 (QEH 2) |
Links | |
Website | jknsabah jknsabah |
Lists | Hospitals in Malaysia |
It is named after Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, who was also the reigning sovereign of the colonial British Empire during its establishment in 1957.