Kiang Wu Hospital

Kiang Wu Hospital 鏡湖醫院
The main entrance of the Hospital Kiang Wu
Geography
Location	São Lázaro, Macau
Organisation
Care system	Charitable hospital
Funding	Non-profit hospital
Type	District General
Affiliated university	Kiang Wu Charitable Association
Services
Emergency department	Yes, Accident and Emergency
Beds	466
History
Opened	1871
Links
Website	http://www.kwh.org.mo/ Kiang Wu Hospital

Kiang Wu Hospital
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	鏡湖醫院
Simplified Chinese	镜湖医院
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jìnghú Yī​yuàn Yue: Cantonese Jyutping geng3 wu4 ji1 jyun6*2
Portuguese name
Portuguese	Hospital Kiang Wu

Kiang Wu Hospital (KWH; Chinese: 鏡湖醫院) is a private district general hospital is located in Santo António, Macau.[1] It is one of the three hospitals in Macau. Founded in 1871, the hospital is run by the Kiang Wu Charitable Association and offered Chinese medical services. Renowned doctor Sun Yat-Sen brought Western medicine services to the hospital. The hospital has had four different sites, the last built in 2000.

Till 2019 there was no Western-style medical school in Macau, so all indigenous intending doctors have to either qualify overseas, or qualified doctors have to be brought in from outside. Macau University of Science and Technology started a medical school in Macau in September 2019 for its MBBS program.[2] The second batch of students started their classes on 21 September 2020.[3] Clinical training of medical students will start from third year of medical training in the university hospital associated with the university. The medical school has been listed in the world directory of medical schools.[4] Medium of instruction in the medical school is English. Most of the students are from Macau. The duration of MBBS course is 5 years with an additional year for internship.

The hospital is not currently engaged in international healthcare accreditation.

stele (wording in Chinese meaning "hospital boundary")outside Kiang Wu Hospital

Staff

As of 2016^[update], the hospital had over 340 doctors and over 800 nurses. The doctors were trained at universities in Mainland China and Taiwan, with about one-third each graduating from the School of Medicine at Jinan University and the Zhongshan School of Medicine. The nurses earned certificates in nursing at schools in Mainland China, at Macao Polytechnic University (formerly Macao Polytechnic Institute), and at Kiang Wu itself.[5]

Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau

Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau
Instituto de Enfermagem Kiang Wu de Macau
澳門鏡湖護理學院

Type	Private
Established	1923; 101 years ago (1923)
President	Florence Van
Location	Santo António , Macau

Established in 1923 as Kiang Wu Nursing School by the Kiang Wu Charitable Association and provided nursing staff for Kiang Wu Hospital. It became a degree granting college (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) in 2002.[6]

See also

• Healthcare in Macau
• List of hospitals in Macau
• List of hospitals in China

References

1. Home. Kiang Wu Hospital. Retrieved on April 21, 2018. "地址：鏡湖醫院位於澳門連勝街" (Rua de Coelho do Amaral)
2. "Faculty of Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology".
3. "Faculty of Medicine, MUST monograph" (PDF).
4. "World Directory of Medical Schools".
5. Yau, Elaine (2016-09-12). "Why Macau spends millions to send its patients to Hong Kong – some by air". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on 2017-04-09. Retrieved 2017-04-09. – Print title: "Patients running out"
6. Van, Florence. "About KWNC | Nursing". Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau. Archived from the original on 2019-10-12. Retrieved 2019-10-12.

External links

• Kiang Wu Hospital - in Chinese

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