HK$13 billion Hong Kong Children’s Hospital starts operating limited service with inpatient wards to start opening in 2019
- First patients at the hospital in Kai Tak attend for follow-up care at specialist outpatient clinics
Hong Kong’s first children’s hospital, which will focus on rare and complex cases, opened its doors on Tuesday, but inpatient services will not commence until next year.
The first patients at the HK$13 billion (US$1.7 billion) Hong Kong Children’s Hospital in Kai Tak were attending for follow-up appointments at specialist outpatient clinics. Specialties for nephrology, oncology and metabolic medicine start first.
On Tuesday, nine patients previously receiving follow-up care from the paediatric nephrology team at Princess Margaret Hospital in Kwai Chung attended the new facility.
Julian Yue Yat-hei, a 13-year-old boy who was born with one kidney and suffered from narrowing of a major blood vessel, was among them. The Tseung Kwan O resident arrived at the hospital with his mother shortly after 10am.
“It feels like I’m in a private hospital, everything is brand new,” he said.