Ruttonjee Hospital

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Location = Wan Chai
Region = Hong Kong Island
State = Hong Kong
Country = China
HealthCare = Medicare
Type = Teaching, General
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Emergency = Yes
Affiliation= Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong
Beds = 600
Founded = 1991; historical ties to Royal Naval Hospital (Hong Kong) (1841)
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Ruttonjee Hospital (Chinese: 律敦治醫院) is a hospital in Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. It is affliated with the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Hong Kong, and provides clinical attachment opportunities for the university's medical students.

History

Centrally located in Wan Chai, the Ruttonjee Hospital is a recently-redeveloped hospital with a history that goes back more than 140 years. It was founded on the Mount Shadwell, Wan Chai site which was occupied by the "Royal Naval Hospital", which was severely damaged during the Second World War [http://www.pdavis.nl/RN_Hosp.htm The Royal Naval Hospital, Hong Kong] , private website citing Harland, Kathleen, "The Royal Navy in Hong Kong since 1841", Maritime Books, Liskeard, Cornwall, undated; and Melson, Commodore P.J., (ed.), "White ensign - red dragon", Edinburgh Financial Publishing, Hong Kong, 1997] .

In 1949, the "Ruttonjee Sanatorium" (律敦治療養院) was set up with the support of Mr Jehangir Hormusjee Ruttonjee in memory of his daughter, Tehmi Ruttonjee-Desai, who died of tuberculosis in 1943. It was one of the main institutions specifically treating tuberculosis in Hong Kong.

It was converted into the "Ruttonjee Hospital", a 600-bed general hospital, in 1991 not only because the number of patients suffering from tuberculosis had decreased, but also because patients are increasingly treated by out-patient chemotherapy. [cite book|author=Michael Humphries|date=1996|title= Ruttonjee Sanatorium: Life and Times|publisher=The Sanatorium?|location=Hong Kong] The hospital now provides a wide range of services to meet the requirements of the community.

Since reconstruction, the hospital has become an acute general hospital with general medical and surgical specialities. It does not, however, provide paediatric, obstetric or gynaecological cover. Its surgical department enjoys high acclaim as the Ruttonjee is the only hospital in Hong Kong to provide sex-change operations. The geriatrics service has also developed in recent years in response to the aging population of the Wan Chai district.

ee also

* Seaman's Hospital
* HMS Tamar

References

External links

*cite web|url=http://www.ha.org.hk/hesd/nsapi/?MIval=ha_view_content&c_id=100144|title=Ruttonjee Hospital
*cite web|url=http://www.harinderveriah.com/articles23.html|title=Alleged case of racism