In May 1895, seventeen years before the Republic of China, the Ching Dynasty ceded Taiwan to Japan after losing the First Sino-Japanese War in the previous summer. The Military Medical Affairs Bureau of the Armed Services of the Empire of Japan founded the Hsinchu Hospital after its take-over from the authority of the Ching Dynasty. It was soon transferred under the governance of the Hsinchu Sub-bureau of the Taipei Prefecture the next June in 1896 and was formally named as the Hsinchu Hospital. It was renamed as the Hsinchu Hospital of the Hsinchu County in 1897 and estalbished a branch hospital in Maioli County. It was further assigned under the governance of the Governor-General of Taiwan the next year in 1898 and abolished its Miaoli branch hospital till the return of Taiwan from Japan to China at the end of the World War II in 1945.
Period of Japanese Occupation:
Initially taking a corner of the Office of the Hsinchu County in its inception, Hsinchu Hospital was relocated to the Dragon King Temple and the Nursery at the Mamen Street in June 1897. New buildings were not erected until September 1907 at the current address of 59 Shimen Street. It took more than one decade for completion of construction of the wards, operation rooms, and dormitories in October 1922. The construction of Hsinchu Hospital was not completed until the brick auditorium and concrete outpatient building were erected with the gradual addition of facilities in 1930.
Early Post-WWII Era:
After the return of Taiwan from Japan to China in August 1945, Hsinchu Hospital was transferred under the governance of the Hygiene Bureau of the Civil Branch of the Taiwan Provincial Executive Office on Nov. 24, 1945. It was later on renamed as the Provincial Hsinchu Hospital under the oversight of the Department of Health of the Taiwan Provincial Government.
Construction of New
Buildings:
Plans to replace buildings more than six decades old began by budgetary planning in fiscal year 1978. The first new building was constructed from July 1979 to the end of 1982 at the current address of 25 Lane 442,
Chin-Kuo Road Section One. It was inaugurated on the New Year's Day of 1983. With increasing demands, the second new building was erected and up for running in December 1999 after six years of construction, making Hsinchu Hospital a total of 637 beds. From July 1st, 1999, in compliance with downsizing of administration hierarchy, Provincial Hsinchu Hospital was renamed as the Hsinchu General Hospital, directly under the governance of the Department of Health of the Executive Yuan. In order to differentiate the two buildings, the old one was officially named as the "Bamboo Building", whilst the new one was named as the "New Building" since 2005.
Hsin Chu General Hospital, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, R.O.C. All Rights Reserved
Address: No.25, Lane 442, Sec. 1, Jingguo Rd., Hsinchu City 300, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Tel:(03)5326151 Registration tel :(03)5330654
