the leading priority in the Development Plan. Responsibility for all decisions will rest with the Medical Academic Advisory Committee subject to any constra រ៉ន placed upon it by the Universities and Polytechnic Grants Committee, but it is thought that the majority of decisions regarding the choice of equipment will be made by the Dean and the Administrator, in conjunction with the Heads of Departments, the latter when appointed.
2.3.2. The first departments to receive consideration will be those of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology, and equipment schedules for these departments are being prepared now and it is hoped that the Dean, Dr Gerald Choa and the Administrator, Arthur Starling, will visit the United Kingdom in about May 1978 in order to have final discussions before the selection of equipment for these Medical Science departments. There will be considerable demand for:
fumigation cupboards scales/balances
student microscopes chromatography equipment
spectrophotometers
centrifuges
cryostats
drying ovens etc, etc.
2.3.3. The budget for the equipment relating to the pre-clinical department is estimated at about HK$5-6m. A sum of HK$10m has been earmarked for research. equipment and one of HK$20m for the remaining equipment for the teaching hospital. There is a proposal at the moment for the consideration of an Inward Mission of Heads of Departments of the Sha Tin to come to United Kingdom early in 1980, and full details of any such mission, should it take place, will be available in due course. The orders for the X-Ray machines and autoclaves will probably be placed however in 1979.
2.3.4. It is interesting to note that 25 per cent of all deaths in Hong Kong are thought to be due to cancer, and with this in mind, a Department of Oncology will be created, and equipment will be required. No details are known for this department.
2.4. WAH JEN HOSPITAL
Preliminary information about this private hospital project was given in EIS D/Trade dated 23 May 1977 and really, the project is no further advanced. Sketch plans are still very basic and clearly demonstrate that the architect is unfamiliar with hospital design and practice generally. At this stage, the plans have been governed by the expressed wishes of 17 specialist doctors who comprise the major part of the hospital board, and no attempt has been made to rationalise the scheme as a whole. There could be an opportunity for a firm of United Kingdom consultants to work with the local architect, Mr NG Yook Man, in the near future. The development is scheduled for 2 phases 300 and 300+ beds.
2.5.
Other projects to which reference was made during the visit include:
2.5.2. LAUNDRIES: It has now been realised that the demand for additional laundries will be greater
and sooner than at first envisaged. Both will be required by the year 1980. The first will be built at/in the vicinity of the prison at Pik Uk and will be unusual in that it will have to be built on 5 floors, thus presenting problems of vertical movement. Take-up will be in the order of 1 million lbs per month, and it is likely that 4 or 5 washer extractors will be required, together with rotary and uniform presses, tumble driers etc.
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