Princess Margaret Hospital
Medicine en Lai Chi Kok
What you should know about Princess Margaret Hospital
Lai King Building (LKB) is an annex block of PMH with 268 beds providing convalescent and rehabilitation support for PMH acute patients. It is a tertiary referral centre for Infectious Diseases, Nephrology and Urology. There is a 24-hour accident and emergency service with a full range of acute specialist and ambulatory services. It provides services for patients from Lai Chi Kok, Tsing Yi, Kwai Chung, Tsuen Wan and Tung Chung Districts. There are 1, 570 beds (including 268 beds at Lai King Building) and around 4, 292 staff as of March 2015. It is located on Lai King Hill which is at 5-minute drive away from PMH. Besides in-patient extended care, LKB also provides a Geriatric Day Hospital with 40 places. Established in 1975, Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) is a major acute general hospital and the flagship hospital in the Kowloon West Cluster. It is the cluster referral centre for Oncology, high risk Obstetrics care, Pulmonary Medicine and Tuberculosis, Lithotripsy, Renal Transplant and Dialysis, Trauma, and also Paediatric and Neonatal intensive care.