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Queen Elizabeth Hospital | |
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Hospital Authority | |
Geography | |
Location | 30 Gascoigne Road, King's Park, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
Coordinates | 22°18′34″N 114°10′32″E / 22.30934°N 114.17561°E |
Organisation | |
Care system | Public |
Funding | Government hospital |
Type | District General, Teaching |
Affiliated university | Queen Elizabeth Hospital General Nursing School, University of Hong Kong and CUHK Faculty of Medicine |
Network | Kowloon Central Cluster |
Services | |
Emergency department | Yes, accident and emergency and trauma centre[1] |
Beds | 1,906[2] |
Helipad | No |
History | |
Opened | 6 September 1963 |
Links | |
Website | www |
Lists | Hospitals in Hong Kong |
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Traditional Chinese | 伊利沙伯醫院 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 伊利沙伯医院 | ||||||||||||
Literal meaning | Elizabeth Hospital | ||||||||||||
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Queen Elizabeth Hospital (Chinese: 伊利沙伯醫院; Cantonese Yale: Yīleihsābaak Yīyún), QE or QEH in short, is one of the largest district general hospital in Hong Kong. It was named after Queen Elizabeth II. Queen Elizabeth Hospital is a major tertiary hospital in southern Kowloon, with over 1,900 beds. It employs more than 500 physicians and surgeons.
The hospital was once the largest in the Commonwealth.[3]
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