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13.3 The majority of the proposals made by the MDAC for
capital expenditure would fall after 1977-78 but before
1983-84. Some were included in the $25,000 million. This
overall amount for the ten-year period included $174 million
for medical projects already in Categories A and B of the
Public Works Programme (excluding polyclinics at Sha Tin and
Tuen Mun) and approximately $198 million in respect of
hospitals and polyclinics at Sha Tin and Tuen Mun, a total
of $372 million. This figure should be increased to $466
million to bring it on to the sa e price basis as the proposals
in this White Paper (i.e. mid-1974), and to $590 million to
allow for furniture and equipment and a projection for
departmental special expenditure. In addition, the overall
estimate of $25,000 million allowed for further development
at the universities and the Polytechnic beyond the present
quadrennium (1974-78). The total capital projection of $25,000
million could then be said to allow for the medical and dental
schools (items b(iv) and (v) in paragraph 13.1 above at a cost
of $79 million) giving a total of $669 million for medical
development. As indicated in paragraph 13.1 these proposals
It is
would require a total of $914 million, an increase of $245 million
over that which could on the most favourable interpretation be
said to have been included in the $25,000 million total.
clear that even if the maximum figure of $25,000 million can be
attained by 1983-84 by financing the "gap" of $7,000 million,
there will be difficulty in financing the further excess resulting
from these proposals unless priority is given to them in overall
Government expenditure at the expense of other significant and
important services.
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