Hong Kong Hospitals
$HK20 MILLION EXTENSION AT QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL
While there are more than 13,000 hospital beds in the Colony of Hong Kong - including 1,388 in the vast new Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kowloon accommodation in Queen Mary Hospital, the largest on Hong Kong Island, had until recently become increasingly inadequate.
Queen Mary, Hong Kong University's teaching hospital, is the main acute and specialist centre on the island. It was built in 1937 at a time when the colony's population was one seventh of its present four million. Its bed capacity of 632 had been supplemented daily by something like 150 camp beds.
In 1962 a three-part programme of extensions, costing in the region of HK$20 million was put in hand. This programme is now complete. Space has been freed in the main hospital block and a further five-phase programme is now under way to expand the existing wards by enclosing ward verandahs and removing dividing walls. The entire project will in- crease the hospital's bed capacity to 1,086.
As stated the new extensions are divided into three projects: (1) a radiodiagnosis block and an
eight-storey operating theatre block; (2) a seven-storey professorial and radiotherapy block; and (3) sisters' and nurses quarters and a nurses' training school.
The first building to be completed was the single- storey radiodiagnosis block. It is connected to the first floor of the main hospital complex by a bridge. The eight-storey operating theatre block is also con-
nected at various levels.
The professorial block houses sections of the radiotherapy department and the upper five storeys are devoted to various university departments.
The quarters for medical and nursing staff are linked to the nursing school and the existing nurses quarters, and a second block has been built to house senior staff.
Throughout the construction programme there no direct disruption of hospital routine. An important aspect of the new extensions is that they will not only improve the standard of medical care, but will also allow a greater number of medical students to be trained.
PROPOSED
VIRUS UNIT AND
MORTUARY
7111???777
•
M
CHINESE MOS
BLOCK PLAN
[ 20 40 53
GARAGES
BLOOD BANK RADIOGRAPHY
OPERATING THEATRE
EXISTING NURSES
QUARTERS
STORES
HOSPITAL SERVANTS
EXISTING HOSPITA
EMERGENCY GENERATOR PLANTS
COLD
NOSIS
Far East Architect & Builder September, 1967
NEW NURSES
QUARTERS M
EXISTING
QUARTERS
TRAINING
NEW SISTERS QUARTERS.
Ž 3 1 1 1 1 [17]
29
23
Page 5Page 6