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Hong Kong opens first psychiatric block for patients under 18
The Kwai Chung Hospital redevelopment expands construction floor area to 134,000 square metres and will support 1,000 psychiatric beds.
Hong Kong’s main psychiatric hospital has opened the city’s first facility exclusively for child and adolescent patients, as part of a broader redevelopment of Kwai Chung Hospital, according to SCMP Economy.
The project increased the hospital’s total construction floor area from 80,000 to 134,000 square metres, with the redeveloped campus designed to provide 1,000 beds for psychiatric patients.
SCMP Economy reports the redevelopment also involved moving specialist outpatient clinics, day hospital services and inpatient units into new blocks, and creating a dedicated child and adolescent block that is Hong Kong’s only site for under-18 psychiatric care.
Hospital chief executive Dr Cheng Koi-man said the physical environment can function as a form of therapy, according to SCMP Economy.