University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital
| Location | Shenzhen |
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| State | Guangdong |
| Country | China |
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| Website | [www |
The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital (HKU-SZH; Chinese: 香港大学深圳医院 ) is a public hospital in Futian District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The 600 bed hospital is one of the two teaching hospitals of The University of Hong Kong, and the Shenzhen municipal government constructed and provided funding for the facility. In 2015 The Wall Street Journal described the hospital, which was developed to conform to international medical standards, as "a key part of China’s health-care system overhaul.
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The hospital opened in 2012. Its first head was Grace Tang Wai-king. The Shenzhen municipal government spent 4 billion yuan (about $624 million U.S. dollars) constructing the hospital. The Shenzhen Daily described it as the first "Hong Kong-style public hospital" in that city, and that residents "have shown great enthusiasm in" the hospital's introduction.
The hospital did not accept hongbao (red packets filled with cash) from patients in exchange for preferential service to them, and has been more conservative in giving out medications and intravenous therapy. For these reasons some patients had filed complaints against the style of healthcare given at HKU-SZH. The Chinese government had fully subsidized HKU-ZSH, but the hospital operated at heavy financial losses despite that.
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