https://www.scmp.com/rss/523686/feed The latest news and top stories on Kwong Wah Hospital. A Hong Kong-based public and teaching hospital, Kwong Wah Hospital is dedicated to providing high-quality, patient-centred healthcare. Its main areas of focus include emergency care, specialist treatments and community health programmes. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Jess Ma Jess Ma Hong Kong public hospitals will extend visiting hours at all rehabilitation and palliative wards from five to nine hours a day by the end of July, with those in central Kowloon and New Territories West expected to roll out the arrangement this month. Danny Tong Wah-kun, the Hospital Authority’s chief manager of nursing, said the authority would also enable round-the-clock visits at all paediatric wards by the end of July, adding to an existing arrangement for one carer to stay overnight in... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3352044/hong-kong-public-hospitals-extend-time-daily-visits-5-9-hours-july-31?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3352044/hong-kong-public-hospitals-extend-time-daily-visits-5-9-hours-july-31?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:00:09 +0000 SCMP SCMP These articles were first published on April 8, 1966. Quiet day explodes into violence by SCMP reporter After a quiet but tense day, Kowloon and New Kowloon last night were again in the grip of riotous mobs, who roamed the streets of Mong Kok and Yau Ma Tei uncontrolled, stoning buses and cars, setting fires to vehicles and buildings and challenging police and troops. For seven hours, they ran wild until two hours after the reimposition of the curfew when an uneasy quiet again returned. The... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3349129/riots-over-star-ferry-fare-increase-kill-1-1800-arrested-scmp-archive?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3349129/riots-over-star-ferry-fare-increase-kill-1-1800-arrested-scmp-archive?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:00:26 +0000 Wynna Wong Wynna Wong Hong Kong International Airport has staged a large-scale emergency drill to test its ability to respond to a major aircraft accident, with more than 1,000 personnel and hundreds of volunteers taking part. The annual aircraft crash and rescue exercise was held on the airport’s centre runway in the early hours of Tuesday, starting at 2.15am and concluding around four hours later. It simulated a departing flight forced to abort take-off after smoke was reported from a passenger’s power bank. In the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3345257/more-1000-personnel-volunteers-stage-emergency-drill-hong-kong-airport?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3345257/more-1000-personnel-volunteers-stage-emergency-drill-hong-kong-airport?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:38:10 +0000 Lam Ka-sing Lam Ka-sing Hong Kong police are investigating the death of a 66-year-old man who fell from bamboo scaffolding, with drugs discovered in the flat he climbed out of. The force said the man, surnamed Yip, was found unconscious on a platform at 3 Nelson Street in Mong Kok at 2.38pm on Saturday. He was rushed to Kwong Wah Hospital in Yau Ma Tei but was subsequently declared dead. Police said detectives from its Mong Kok district criminal investigation team had taken over the case and were looking into the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3344223/hong-kong-police-probe-death-man-60-fall-bamboo-scaffolding?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3344223/hong-kong-police-probe-death-man-60-fall-bamboo-scaffolding?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:36:33 +0000 Oscar Liu Oscar Liu A 63-year-old man has died after falling from a Hong Kong high-rise while trying to rescue his pet cat. A security guard at Jubilant Place in Kowloon City district alerted police at 11.27pm on Wednesday after he found the man lying in a flower bed at Block Three. The man was transported to Kwong Wah Hospital in Yau Ma Tei, where he was later pronounced dead. The force said on Thursday an initial investigation found that the man lost his footing and fell from his flat while trying to retrieve his... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3343952/hongkonger-63-falls-his-death-high-rise-while-trying-save-cat?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3343952/hongkonger-63-falls-his-death-high-rise-while-trying-save-cat?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 19 Feb 2026 01:18:37 +0000 Jess Ma Jess Ma Hong Kong has welcomed at least four new babies as it enters the Year of the Horse, including a girl whose father is a talent visa holder from mainland China and a boy who is the fifth child of a local couple. Four babies were born at midnight on Tuesday: a girl and a boy at Union Hospital in Tai Wai; a boy at Kwong Wah Hospital in Yau Ma Tei; and a girl at St Teresa’s Hospital in Kowloon City. The boy born at Union Hospital weighed 2.94kg (6.48lbs) and was the fifth child of the Tang... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3343822/hong-kong-welcomes-least-4-new-babies-it-enters-year-horse?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3343822/hong-kong-welcomes-least-4-new-babies-it-enters-year-horse?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:51:13 +0000 William Yiu William Yiu Three girls and three boys were born in Hong Kong’s public and private hospitals in the first hour of New Year’s Day. The CUHK Medical Centre, a private teaching hospital owned by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, delivered the city’s first baby of 2026 at 12am. The newborn boy is his parents’ first child. His mother, who asked to be referred to as Mrs Ho, said she would become a full-time parent to care for her son. She said she was deeply moved and excited to see her baby as the clock... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3338362/hong-kong-welcomes-6-babies-world-first-hour-new-years-day?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3338362/hong-kong-welcomes-6-babies-world-first-hour-new-years-day?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 01 Jan 2026 02:43:05 +0000 Denise Tsang,Oscar Liu Denise Tsang,Oscar Liu Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority has reported to police an alleged fake equipment certificate submitted by a subcontractor and suspended the company from its duties at an expansion project. The authority revealed on Wednesday night that Novox had submitted the certificate through the main contractor of the Princess Margaret Hospital expansion project in Kwai Chung to verify the accuracy of vibration monitoring systems. But the certificate was not issued by mainland Chinese laboratory Guangdong... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3335977/hospital-authority-reports-alleged-fake-device-certificate-hong-kong-police?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3335977/hospital-authority-reports-alleged-fake-device-certificate-hong-kong-police?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Dec 2025 01:27:46 +0000 Danny Mok,Jess Ma Danny Mok,Jess Ma A suspect briefly fled from custody and hid inside a police station in Hong Kong before being rearrested, marking the second escape incident in two days. The most recent escape occurred on Tuesday at Sau Mau Ping Police Station, where a 32-year-old woman fled while under investigation for an assault case dating back to June 17 in Ngau Tau Kok. She was arrested for allegedly pushing her 97-year-old grandfather to the ground during a dispute over money. The elderly man was conscious when taken to... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3328257/second-suspect-many-days-escapes-police-custody-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3328257/second-suspect-many-days-escapes-police-custody-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Oct 2025 10:59:40 +0000 Edith Lin Edith Lin About 100 Hong Kong wartime aerial photos being exhibited for the first time reveal valuable details about the World War II air raids in Kowloon, similar to the one associated with a bomb recently unearthed in Quarry Bay, a historian has said. Professor Kwong Chi-man, chair of Baptist University’s history department, said the aerial photo collection of the Kowloon Peninsula, taken between 1941 and 1945, was retrieved from the United States National Archives and Records Administration. Organised... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3327665/100-hong-kong-wartime-aerial-photos-display-reveal-wwii-details-kowloon?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3327665/100-hong-kong-wartime-aerial-photos-display-reveal-wwii-details-kowloon?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 03 Oct 2025 01:30:11 +0000 Annemarie Evans Annemarie Evans I WAS BORN in Kwong Wah Hospital in October 1983. I have a sister, Melody Hau. She’s eight years older than me. She’s always been more of a second mother than a sibling. She’s actually my manager now. We have different fathers and she didn’t come into my life until she was 11. She was brought up by my (maternal) grandma and then she joined our family. That’s when I realised I had a sister. I was three. My mum was a businesswoman and she would fly a lot. So I saw my sister a lot more than my mum... https://www.scmp.com/postmag/culture/article/3323058/mariah-carey-korn-and-making-hong-kong-radio-dj?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/postmag/culture/article/3323058/mariah-carey-korn-and-making-hong-kong-radio-dj?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 25 Aug 2025 22:15:06 +0000