Princess Margaret Hospital (Hong Kong)

Princess Margaret Hospital (Chinese: 瑪嘉烈醫院; Cantonese Yale: Máhgāliht Yīyún) or PMH is a major acute district general hospital in south Kwai Chung, New Territories, near Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong, managed by the Hospital Authority. It provides services for patients from Lai Chi Kok, Lower Kwai Chung, Tsing Yi, Tsuen Wan, and Tung Chung and Lantau Islands.

Princess Margaret Hospital
Hospital Authority
Geography
Location	2-10 Princess Margaret Hospital Road, Kwai Chung, Hong Kong
Coordinates	22.34016°N 114.13467°E / 22.34016; 114.13467
Organisation
Care system	Public
Funding	Government hospital
Type	District General, Teaching
Affiliated university	School of Nursing, Princess Margaret Hospital, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of University of Hong Kong and CUHK Faculty of Medicine
Network	Kowloon West Cluster
Services
Emergency department	Yes, Accident and Emergency and trauma centre[1]
Beds	1,733[2]
Helipad	No
History
Opened	20 October 1975; 49 years ago (1975-10-20)
Links
Lists	Hospitals in Hong Kong

Although it is not the main teaching hospital in Hong Kong, it also provides clinical teaching for medical students from medical college in Hong Kong, as well as providing internship placement.

Princess Margaret Hospital provides tertiary specialist services in urology and nephrology and has been widely regarded by Hong Kong people as the best specialist hospital in kidney related services and research.

Background

Princess Margaret Hospital was opened on 20 October 1975,^[3] named after the late Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, sister of the late Queen Elizabeth II. It is the flagship hospital in the Kowloon West Cluster of the Hospital Authority.

Services

Princess Margaret Hospital is have 1,733 beds and nearly 5,000 staff, provides 24-hour accident and emergency service and a wide range of specialist, ambulatory and convalescent services.^[2] It is a tertiary referral centre for infectious diseases, nephrology, and urology in the whole territory. It is also the cluster referral centre for oncology, renal transplant and dialysis, lithotripsy, pulmonary medicine and tuberculosis, high risk obstetrics care, and paediatric and neonatal intensive care.^[4]

A 20-bed Intensive Care Unit is also situated in the CD block of the hospital. Its specialist outpatient clinic is situated at Block K, Princess Margaret Hospital.

With the opening of the Hong Kong International Airport in July 1998, the Hospital provides acute care for international travellers. Moreover, it is one of the major receiving hospitals for victims in airport disasters.

As a specialised training institute recognised by the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine, Princess Margaret Hospital provides bedside teaching and clinical attachment for medical students and offers intern placement for graduates.

Infectious Disease Centre (IDC)^[5] and the Hospital Authority Toxicology Reference Laboratory^[6] are situated at PMH serving the entire Hospital Authority.

Lai King Building (LKB), an annex block of the hospital is situated at Lai King Hill, about 5-minute drive away from main block of PMH. It provides convalescent and rehabilitation support for PMH patients, with 268 beds, of which 93 are infirmary beds.