Parks · Northern Ireland
Belvoir Park Hospital
Belvoir Park Hospital in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Belvoir Park Hospital is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Belvoir Park Hospital was a cancer treatment specialist hospital situated in Newtownbreda, South Belfast, Northern Ireland. Belvoir Park held Northern Ireland's only radiotherapy unit, until the opening of a new cancer treatment centre in Belfast City Hospital.
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Background
History
The hospital, which was designed by Young and McKenzie, opened as the Purdysburn Fever Hospital in 1906. The facility became known as Montgomery House in 1953 and it then became Belvoir Park Hospital in the 1960s. The hospital became the main regional centre for oncology, offering radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatments and in 1983, the hospital was the first in the province to take delivery of a CT scanner. Friends of Montgomery House, a charity founded by Dr Gerard Lynch to help cancer sufferers and their families, was established in 1984 and the hospital's Gerard Lynch Centre held many cancer support groups, in order to aid both sufferers and their families. After services had been…
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- Coordinates
- 54.5441, -5.9322
- Address
- Newtownbreda
- Established
- 1906
Sources
- wikidata: Q4884927 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Belvoir Park Hospital (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Belvoir Park Hospital?
- Belvoir Park Hospital is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.5441°, -5.9322°.
- When was Belvoir Park Hospital built?
- Belvoir Park Hospital dates to 1906.