The Royal Victoria Hospital (commonly known as the Royal the RVH or the Royal Belfast) is a hospital in Belfast Northern Ireland.The hospital (which provides over 20 percent of the acute-care beds in Northern Ireland and treats half a million patients a year) is undergoing a £74 million refurbishing. This includes an extension to the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children new wards in the main hospital a new accident and emergency department and a new maternity unit.