Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital
hospital in Hong Kong
Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital (Chinese: 雅麗氏何妙齡那打素醫院; AHNH or AHN) is an acute district general hospital managed under the New Territories East Cluster of the Hospital Authority in Hong Kong. Established by the former London Missionary Society in 1887, it was the first teaching hospital in Hong Kong to train Cantonese locals in Western medical science. It moved to its current location in Tai Po in 1997.
History
Early in 1881, a Medical Mission Committee, mostly made up of members of the former London Missionary Society, was established to promote Western medicine in Hong Kong. Henry William Davis, chairman of the committee, donated substantially to set up a dispensary in the Tai Ping Shan district at the western end of Hong Kong Island. The dispensary was named after Davis's mother as the Nethersole Dispensary.
Alice Memorial Hospital (Chinese: 雅麗氏利濟醫院; Cantonese Yale: Ngáhlaihsih Leihjai Yīyún) was opened at 77–81 Hollywood Road on 16 February 1887 under the management of the London Missionary Society. It was the first hospital in Hong Kong to train local Chinese in Western medical science. The hospital structure was built by a donation from Ho Kai in memory of his wife Alice Walkden. She died of typhoid fever in 1884, two years after her arrival in Hong Kong.
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