| Tung Wah Hospital | |
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| Hospital Authority andTung Wah Group of Hospitals | |
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 Tung Wah Hospital | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | 12 Po Yan Street,Sheung Wan,Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong |
| Coordinates | 22°17′07″N114°08′48″E / 22.28515°N 114.14673°E /22.28515; 114.14673 |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Hospital Authority |
| Funding | Charitable |
| Type | Teaching, Community |
| Affiliated university | Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong |
| Network | Hong Kong West Cluster |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | No Accident and Emergency atQueen Mary Hospital |
| Beds | 633 |
| History | |
| Opened | 26 March 1870; 155 years ago (1870-03-26) |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in Hong Kong |
| Designated | 18 December 2009; 15 years ago (2009-12-18)[1] |
| Reference no. | 183 |
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| Traditional Chinese | 東華醫院 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 东华医院 | ||||||||||||
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Tung Wah Hospital is acharitable hospital inHong Kong under theTung Wah Group of Hospitals. Located abovePossession Point at 12Po Yan Street inSheung Wan, it is the first hospital established incolonial Hong Kong for the general public in the 1870s.
The hospital was declared for construction on 26 March 1870 under the "Tung Wah Hospital Incorporation Ordinance". The push for the facility's construction began when the British colony'sregistrar general saw an indiscriminate mix of the dead and dying huddled together in the nearbyKwong Fook I-tsz [zh], a small temple built atTai Ping Shan Street.[2] The large number of deaths were in part due to the arrival of the upcomingThird Pandemic ofbubonic plague fromChina, though it[clarification needed] was not declared an official establishment until 1872.[3]
The hospital was subsidized by the government at a price ofHK$45,000 along withHK$15,000 in land grant. The grand opening on 14 February 1872 was considered the grandest ever witnessed in colonial Hong Kong. A lot of cultural prejudice existed at the time, with Chinese citizens not trustingwestern medicine and other practices such assurgery. Many of them would rather die than be admitted into a western clinic.[4]
In 1911, the government enacted Ordinance No. 38, known as the "1911 Expansion of Tung Wah Hospital Ordinance", to help deal with the population growth ofKowloon and theNew Territories along withKwong Wah Hospital.[5]
With 633 beds, including 494 for in-patients, 93 for day patients and 46 rehabilitation day places, it is the second largest general hospital inHong Kong West Cluster. The Main Block of Tung Wah Hospital is graded asGrade I historic building.[1] It is affiliated with theLi Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of theUniversity of Hong Kong.[citation needed]
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