Medical care in Hong Kong

November 13, 2005 8:55 AM

Please help me determine the name and location of the best Western-style hospital in Hong Kong. I'm also looking for any other tips you can offer to someone seeking medical care there.

A relative is in southeastern China, has been struck by a rather virulent and persistent illness, and is in need of quality medical care. She has had less than stellar luck with the factory-style treatment she's received in indigenous Chinese hospitals, and so will be travelling to HK tomorrow.

posted by killdevil to health (4 comments total)

if you don't get any info from here it might be a good idea to post in one of the HK expat forums like alloexpat.
posted by tnai at 10:54 AM on November 13, 2005

According to my girlfriend, who did a placement in Hong Kong as a student doctor, the two good Western hospitals are the Queen Elizabeth and the Prince of Wales.
posted by chrismear at 11:26 AM on November 13, 2005

The Seventh-Day Adventist private hospital is by far the best so long as a) you have money and b) you can put up with annoying Seventh-Day Adventists.
posted by randomstriker at 3:16 PM on November 13, 2005

As I remember it you pay in all public HK hospitals like the Queen Elisabeth and the Prince of Wales: If you have HKID it is about HKD60~100 a day, otherwise about HKD3000. That is for a public ward. I have no idea how you get admitted.
posted by priorpark17 at 9:35 AM on November 14, 2005