Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital
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Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital (Chinese:
Chinese language
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 東區尤德夫人那打素醫院) is an acute care hospital
Hospital
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....

 in Hong Kong.

The hospital opened in 1993 with 1829 beds and staff of over 3000. It replaced the Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital
Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital
Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital is a hospital in Tai Po of the New Territories of Hong Kong.- History :The Alice Memorial Hospital was originally founded by missionaries in 1887. The hospital structure was built by a donation from Dr. Ho Kai in memory of this wife Alice. She died of typhoid...

 in Mid-Levels
Mid-levels
Mid-levels is an expensive residential area on Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. It is located halfway up Victoria Peak, directly above Central...

 in Hong Kong Island
Hong Kong Island
Hong Kong Island is an island in the southern part of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. It has a population of 1,289,500 and its population density is 16,390/km², as of 2008...

 and moved to Chai Wan. Assigned to the Hong Kong eastern hospital cluster and replaced the other Nethersole hospital, which relocated to the New Territories.

Before the establishment of the Hospital, there were only 3 government clinics but no hospitals in the Eastern District, a district with population of 440 thousand in 1980s; in August 1982, several churches in the District form an organization to force the then Government to establish a hospital, leading to the establishment of Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital.

It is affiliated with the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
The Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong is the older of the two medical schools in Hong Kong , and is among the oldest in the Far East.-History:...

, the University of Hong Kong, providing clinical attachment opportunities for its medical students.

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