Secretary for Health and Welfare : Sir, the Taipo Nethersole
Hospital
addition,
is
estimated
to
be
the Medical
Development
completed by 1992
Committee Advisory
to
1993. In
has
recommended that a hospital should be planned
in the North
District, in the Fanling/Sheung Shiu area. This would provide
another 1,200 beds by 1996-97. So by that time, the present
shortfall in beds in the eastern
in the eastern part of
part of the New Territories
will be very largely catered for.