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in relation to the Buddhist Hospital and the Caritas Medical
Centre, both of which are presently assisted by way of a
cost-per-bed subvention.
If they agree to participate in
these integrated arrangements it would be necessary to review
the manner in which they are subvented.
The MDAC suggested
that this might be achieved by applying the deficiency grant
system of subvention (now applied to the Tung Wah Group and
the United Christian Hospital).
6.13
The position of the Tung wah Group, with its
fine charitable tradition of charging nothing to third-class
patients, even for subsistence, presents particular diffi-
culties. But the Government believes it should be possible
to work out some mutually acceptable arrangement which might
reconcile the charitable tradition of the Group with the
public interest in an integrated system,
6.14
The MDAC recommended that some increases should
be made in the charges presently made in Government hospitals.
The present daily maintenance charge was instituted in 1961.
The MDAC further recommended that the present charges should
initially be increased from $2 to $3 a day and then to $5
a day at a later stage. The Government has noted these
recommendations and will, with the assistance of the DAC,
give early consideration to them.
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G.F. 323
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