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Chapter V. Embracing the Modern Age

Hospital Partners

Queen Mary Hospital, which opened Grantham Hospital was founded in Kwong Wah Hospital, the largest of Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital
in 1937, has been the Department’s long- 1957 by the Hong Kong Anti-tuberculosis the five Kwong Wah Group of Hospitals, officially opened in 2017 with HKUMed
term home. Departmental offices can still Association (later the Hong Kong opened in 1911 to serve the population as its exclusive clinical partner. The
be found in the Professorial Block and the Anti-tuberculosis, Chest and Heart on Kowloon side. The Department’s Department works with the hospital
New Clinical Building. Under the Phase Association). In July 1968, Dr HK affiliation with Kwong Wah Hospital has
I hospital redevelopment project, a new Wong and Dr Lester Bryant, a visiting allowed for expansion of the teaching to offer a range of surgical specialities
Clinical Block I will open in 2026 to house American surgeon, performed Hong programme and a source of direct referral to patients, while also giving students
Kong’s first open-heart operation under
surgical wards and operating theatres cardiopulmonary bypass. Grantham to Queen Mary Hospital. In 1978, the exposure to a private sector setting.
equipped with modern technologies, such Hospital also became a home for the
as intra-operative MRI. Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, the Department was given responsibility for
only paediatric cardiac surgical centre running Kwong Wah’s General Surgical
in Hong Kong, and the only centre for Unit. Under Wong, two to three staff were
cardiac and lung transplantation, which deployed there to run the unit.
all later relocated to Queen Mary Hospital.
It is now being redeveloped into a cancer
care and research centre.

The University of Hong Kong-
Shenzhen Hospital opened in 2012,
Tung Wah Hospital, which dated with HKUMed staff members including
back to 1870 when it initially provided surgical staff, providing services and
traditional Chinese medicine services, teaching there. Its status has risen rapidly
became one of the best-equipped Hong Kong Sanatorium & and, under the leadership of surgery
ambulatory surgical centres during Hospital has been a private sector
Wong’s headship under the direction of partner hospital of the Faculty, including Professor Lo Chung-Mau from 2016-22, it
Professors Stephen Lim, KH Lam, John Duchess of Kent Children’s the Department of Surgery, for decades. became the youngest High-level Hospital
Boey and TK Choi. It has also provided Hospital, founded in 1955 by the Society Prominent members of the Department, of Guangdong Province in 2018 and a
convalescence beds to ease overcrowding for the Relief of Disabled Children, was such as Professor ST Fan and Professor National High-Quality Development
at Queen Mary and operating theatres for where the orthopaedics team, which was William Wei, are now based there and Hospital in 2021, among other accolades.
major procedures when Queen Mary’s then part of the Department of Surgery, have sustained our teaching, research The Department’s Surgical Forum had
units were closed for renovation. It now developed the Hong Kong operation for and clinical service connections with the been conducted there.
provides day surgery service for minor spinal tuberculosis. It became an active
surgical problems and an endoscopy extension of the Division of Paediatric hospital.
service. Surgery in 1979.

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