United Christian Hospital is an acute district general hospital in

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, operated by the

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. The hospital has 1,174 beds and staff of 3,000, serving eastern Kowloon. Founded in 1973, it has links to

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via the

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. The hospital's first chief medical superintendent was Dr. Edward Hamilton Paterson.

History

United Chrisian Hospital has its foundation stone laid on 2 April 1971 by the

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David Trench Sir David Clive Crosbie Trench (; 2 June 1915 – 4 December 1988) was a British Army officer and colonial governor. Early life Trench was educated at Tonbridge School, Tonbridge, Kent and graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge with the degre ...

, and was officially opened on 6 December 1973 by

Murray MacLehose Crawford Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch, (; 16 October 1917 – 27 May 2000), was a British politician, diplomat and the 25th Governor of Hong Kong, from 1971 to 1982. He was the longest-serving governor of the colony, with fou ...

, Trench's successor as Governor of Hong Kong. The hospital was expanded in the 1990s. At that time, Blocks J, K, L and S were built and Block P was redeveloped. The project was completed in 1999.

Services

* 24 hours

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* Medicine &

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and

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* Orthopaedic and Traumatic Surgery *

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* Intensive Care *

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* Diagnostic

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* Ear-Nose-Throat *

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& Maxillofacial Surgery The hospital provides in-patient, day-patient and out-patient care; it also manages the psychiatry, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and geriatric

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services of Yung Fung Shee Memorial Centre as well as the Eye Clinic, pharmacy and radiology services of the Pamela Youde Polyclinic at Cha Kwo Ling Road. The hospital provides Community Nursing Services (CNS) to the patients in Kwun Tong.

Redevelopment and expansion

The hospital is currently undergoing a major expansion and redevelopment project. This involves the demolition of Blocks F, G, and H, as well as the low block of Block P. A major new ambulatory block (Block A) will be built, a new Oncology Centre will be provided, and various other expansions and renovations will be completed. The project is set to be completed in 2023. By the end January 2018, Secretary for Food and Health Professor Sophia Chan Siu-chee expressed her concern over the chronicle shortage of nurse across hospitals in Hong Kong. Among hospitals being affected, United Christian Hospital was cited as the worse-hit public medical service provider. Statistics showed its bed occupancy rate reached the hike of 120%, the rate of usage that was well above its maximum capacity. But, as a whole if we took a wider perspective to see the problem across other hospitals in Hong Kong, the situation of recruitment medical staff was not well either. Shortage of labour has long been an issue the public Hospital find it hard to tackle. They fell short of recruiting enough number of medical personnel. Over the past year of the 2000 vacancies available only 80 percent of which was filled, amounting to 1800 new nurses being hired by the public hospital. Added to the problem was the incoming flu season during the winter, which would for certain mount more pressure on medical stuff across hospitals in Hong Kong due to the foreseeable rise of workloads.Naomi N
Kong short of 200 nurses as hospitals grapple with deadly flu season"
''SCMP'', Saturday, 27 January 2018

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History

Services

Redevelopment and expansion

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