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to be made after the completion of a detailed
survey;
(a) relieving the overcrowding at the Queen Elizabeth
Hospital casualty department by building an extension;
(e) providing additional facilities at Queen Elizabeth
Hospital by means of an extension of "B" Block for
open heart surgery and a better clinical pathology
service, and 100 additional beds; and
(f) adding a Burns Unit to Queen Mary Hospital.
The position of the Tung Wah
Group of
Hospitals.
6.9
The scheme described in this chapter cannot be fully
carried out without the participation of the general beds in the
hospitals of the Tung Wah Group. The scheme as described hitherto
envisages that the Kwong Wah Hospital (with improvements) would
become a regional hospital serving West Kowloon and the Tung Wah
and Tung Wah Eastern would act as district hospitals on Hong Kong
Island.
6.10
An integrated scheme of this sort for third class
patients would undoubtedly achieve a more even use of beds in
different hospitals, and be more fair to patients who frequently
have no choice as to which hospital they go to, if all parti-
cipating hospitals charged uniform fees. At present there is
considerable disparity even though all are funded to a more or
less equal extent by the taxpayer. The all-inclusive charge in
Government hospitals is $2 a day for third-class beds with a
system of remission in case of need.
Amongst assisted hospitals
the Tung Wah Group traditionally charges no fees to third-class
patients, but others for the most part charge fees in excess
/of those...
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