Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kota Kinabalu
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital 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 along the Old Tuaran Road, known as Jalan Tuaran Lama, then followed by a second building in 1981, This reinforced concrete tower was found to be using unwashed sea sand as part of the concrete mix, which caused its structure to fail which leads into its demolition in 2009. The hospital was visited by the Queen in 1971 and currently it is being replaced with a new one the same year, in which it is still in use until the present era.Prior to the demolishment of existing first building in 2009, the federal government purchased the former building premises of the Sabah Medical Centre private hospital located in the Damai neighbourhood, whereby it was renovated and being renamed as Queen Elizabeth Hospital II. The second building has since been maintained until this date. Although the service for normal patients has been returned to the new first building located at the existing main hospital building premises in Kepayan Ridge, the second building that was located in Damai is mainly used now as a heart centre or a specialist hospital for cardiothoracic health-related services.