Admission Procedures: Emergency Admission through Accident & Emergency Department (AED)

• If hospital admission is needed after assessment by AED medical officer, emergency admission would be arranged.
• Patients must present the original valid identity documents for admission, which includes:
  • For Adult and adolescent (12 years of age or over): HKID Card or Travelling Document;
  • For Child (under 11 years of age): HKID Card / HK Birth Certificate or Travelling Document;
  • For Infant (who was born in Hong Kong and less than 42 days but does not have Birth Certificate yet): Documents issued by Hospital (e.g. Immunisation Card) and HKID Card / Travelling document of patient’s father or mother.
• For emergency admission, if you cannot present valid identification documents, you will be regarded as a non-entitled person and be required to pay a deposit on the admission day and full fees on the discharge day.
• For more information, please refer to the information sheets below:
  • Admission Information
  • Patients' Charter
  • Information Sheet to Patients’ Relatives/Visitors for Handling of Food Brought into Hospital

Remark:

Private Practitioners may refer acute patients to AED. However, hospital admission would depend on the medical conditions of individual patient.