Tsan Yuk Hospital
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| Tsan Yuk Hospital | |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Place | Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, (China) |
| Organisation | |
| Care System | Medicare |
| Hospital Type | Teaching, General |
| Affiliated University | Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong |
| Services | |
| Emergency Dept. | No |
| Beds | N/A |
| History | |
| Founded | 1922 |
| Links | |
| Website | Unknown |
| See also | Hospitals in China |
Tsan Yuk Hospital (Chinese: 贊育醫院) is a public hospital in Hong Kong specializing in obstetrics and gynaecology.
Opened by London Missionary Society as a maternity hospital in 1922 and taken over by the government in 1934.
Since 1937, it has been a teaching hospital for the University of Hong Kong.
[edit] Incidents
In February 2008, a man who was born there in 1976 discovered that he was swapped with another baby at birth. He discovered learned this when he discovered his blood type was AB while his "mother" was blood type O, a biological impossibility. [1]
[edit] References
- ^ Pang, Damon (February 25, 2008), “Mix-up man unlikely to trace biological parents”, The Standard, <http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=30&art_id=61993&sid=17751498&con_type=1>
