Hong Kong’s main psychiatric hospital has unveiled the city’s first facility exclusively dedicated to child and adolescent patients, as part of a wider redevelopment that offers upgraded wards designed to enhance service quality and foster recovery.
The redevelopment of Kwai Chung Hospital has increased the total construction floor area from 80,000 to 134,000 square metres, ensuring it can provide 1,000 beds for psychiatric patients.
It also involved the reallocation of specialist outpatient clinics, day hospital facilities and inpatient services to new blocks.
“In psychiatry, the environment itself serves as a form of therapy,” Dr Cheng Koi-man, the hospital’s chief executive, said on Wednesday.
“Compared with the old hospital, this space creates an open, safe and community-like therapeutic environment while offering more indoor and outdoor spaces for inpatients, breaking the public’s stereotype of traditional and enclosed psychiatric management.”
The redeveloped campus includes a new main facility and a child and adolescent block, which is also Hong Kong’s only site dedicated to psychiatric care for patients under 18.