Queen Mary Hospital located in
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on
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of
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, is the
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of the Faculty of Dentistry and
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of the University of Hong Kong. Its main ward tower, Block K, is the tallest hospital building in Asia at 137 metres (28 storeys), and is the third tallest in the world, behind
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's
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and Houston's
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. It has around 1,400 beds. It provides general medical and surgical services to the residents of Western and Southern districts and is a tertiary referral centre for the whole territory of Hong Kong and beyond.
History
The hospital was founded in 1937, and its first building was opened that year by
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, the then
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. The hospital was named for
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,
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and wife of then
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. It then replaced the Government Civil Hospital as the main accident and emergency hospital for Hong Kong Island. The hospital was greatly expanded over the years, with two major expansion projects completed in 1955 and 1983. It is the teaching hospital for the University of Hong Kong.
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