Two wheelchairs left behind. BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND: THIS ABANDONED hospital was involved in a scandal after intruders stole sensitive medical docu
Two wheelchairs left behind. BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND: THIS ABANDONED hospital was involved in a scandal after intruders stole sensitive medical documents and sold them show medical equipment that would have been used for infectious diseases and cancer treatments. Another image shows where the children would have played during their stay at the hospital. Freelance photographer Jordan L (24) from London, United kingdom captured images of the abandoned Belvoir Park Hospital in Belfast using a Canon 2000D DSLR combined with the 10-18mm ultra wide angle lens. The hospital closed down in March 2006 after the services were transferred to Belfast city hospital and it has been left abandoned since. The Belvoir Park Hospital has a rich history, with it opening its doors in Purdysburn Fever Hospital in 1906, then being renamed as the Montgomery House in 1953 before it became known as the Belvoir Park Hospital in the 1960s. The building became known for its past infectious disease treatments, oncology treatments and being the first in the province to take delivery of a CT scanner. ?The hospital closed down in March 2006 after the services were transferred to Belfast city hospital,? she said. ?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 The building is now infamous in Ireland after sensitive medical documents were removed from the premises af
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