Princess Margaret Hospital, Hong Kong
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| Geography | |
| Location | 2-10 Princess Margaret Hospital Road, Lai Chi Kok, Hong Kong |
| Coordinates | 22°20′25″N 114°08′05″E / 22.34016°N 114.13467°ECoordinates: 22°20′25″N 114°08′05″E / 22.34016°N 114.13467°E |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public |
| Funding | Government hospital |
| Hospital type | District General, Teaching |
| Affiliated university | Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of University of Hong Kong and CUHK Faculty of Medicine |
| Network | Kowloon West Cluster |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes , Level I Trauma Center |
| Helipad | No |
| Beds | 1,542 |
| History | |
| Founded | 20 October 1975 |
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| Lists | Hospitals in Hong Kong |
Princess Margaret Hospital (Chinese: 瑪嘉烈醫院; Cantonese Yale: Máhgāliht Yīyún) or PMH is a major acute general hospital in south Kwai Chung, near Lai Chi Kok, Hong Kong, managed by the Hospital Authority. It provides services for patients from Lai Chi Kok, Kwai Chung, Tsing Yi, Tsuen Wan and Tung Chung Districts.
Although it is not the main teaching hospital of the two medical faculties in Hong Kong, it 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.
Princess Margaret Hospital was opened on 20 October 1975, named after the late Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, sister of Queen Elizabeth II. It is the flagship hospital in the Kowloon West Cluster of the Hospital Authority.
The hospital, with 1,542 beds and over 4,000 staff, provides 24-hour Emergency Department service and a wide range of specialist, ambulatory and convalescent services. 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, Level I trauma center, renal transplant and dialysis, lithotripsy, pulmonary medicine and tuberculosis, high risk obstetrics care, and paediatric and neonatal intensive care.
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