Queen Mary Hospital (Hong Kong)

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.^[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
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
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; 88 years ago (1937-04-13)
Links
Website	www.ha.org.hk/qmh/
Hong Kong Graded Building – Grade III
Designated	22 January 2010; 15 years ago (2010-01-22)[2]
Reference no.	591

Queen Mary Hospital
Traditional Chinese	瑪麗醫院
Simplified Chinese	玛丽医院
Literal meaning	Mary Hospital
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Mǎlì Yīyuàn Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Máh laih yī yún Jyutping Maa5 lai6 ji1 jyun2 IPA [ma˩˧.lɐj˨ ji˥.jyn˧˥]

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.^[4][5] 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 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]

Facilities

As of 31 March 2019, the hospital has 1,711 beds.^[6]

Services

• Accident and emergency
• Trauma centre^[1]
• 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^[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]

Treatments

In anti-leukaemic treatment, it used oral arsenic trioxide.^[8]