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PKUPH was considered a model hospital in China, and has attracted worldwide attention since its opening in 1918. Dr. WU Lieh-teh, the founding director of PKUPH, was the first medical...
2021-12-22
“This was the institution to which I devoted my best efforts unceasingly for four years, because it was intended as a model civil hospital of China.” -- From the Autobiograph of Dr. WU Lien-teh
“One of the modern enterprises that are attracting wide attention in the new Republic of China is the Central Hospital of Peking, which is to be financed and controlled entirely by Chinese". --From the US journal of The Modern Hospital,1917
Designed by American architects and constructed by a German company, the type of building devised is distinctly American.
Peking Central Hospital was renamed Central Union Hospital in 1946.