Coordinates (QEH1)
(QEH2) Funding Ministry of Health Phone +60 88-517 555 | Care system Government hospital Beds 589 (QEH1)
291 (QEH2) | |
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Location Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia Founded 1981 (QEH1)
2009 (QEH2) Address Jalan Penampang, Penampang, 88200 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia Similar Duchess of Kent Hospital, Likas Stadium, Malacca General Hospital, Sarawak General Hospital, Centre Point | ||
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (Malay: Hospital Queen Elizabeth) in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah is the main hospital for the city and the whole Sabah. It is named after the Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
History
The first hospital building was built in 1957, a second in 1981, this has since been demolished, in 2009, and replaced with a new one. This reinforced concrete tower used unwashed sea sand as part of the concrete mix, which caused it to fail, and its early demolition. The hospital was visited by the Queen on 1971.
Prior to the demolishment of first building in 2009, as a temporary replacement for normal patient, the federal government purchasing the former building of Sabah Medical Centre (SMC) and renovate it as the Queen Elizabeth Hospital II. The second building have since been maintained until this date. Although the service for normal patient has been returned to the new first building, the second building is mainly used now as a heart centre for cardiothoracic surgery and other surgery.