HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
香港立法局 -一九八九年十月十八日
18 October 1989
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be provided by the two hospitals
that is, Queen Mary Hospital and Prince of
Wales Hospital - ought to be sufficient.
MR. PETER WONG: Sir, will the Secretary advise what the expected cost per unit of doing this operation will be and also what the expected total cost per service will be?
SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE: The cost for the provision of the service in the Queen Mary Hospital is included in the Queen Mary Hospital Extension Project and there is no need to find additional resources to fund that service. The cost of providing a service at Prince of Wales Hospital is estimated to be around $1.6 million for capital equipment and about $1.5 million for
recurrent costs.
DR. IP: Sir, for the reason that patients who need this service but not getting it will die, will Government rank this high in the order of priority in considering the availability of resources?
SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE: Sir, as I said already, the service at Queen Mary Hospital has already been funded and will definitely be introduced by the middle of 1990. At the moment I am trying very hard indeed to obtain additional resources for the funding of Prince of Wales Hospital. The exercise has proved to be extremely difficult so much so, Sir, that I sometimes have the distinct feeling that I myself will need a brain transplant.
MR. EDWARD HO: Sir, will the Secretary inform this Council whether the bone marrow transplant service will be introduced in Hong Kong before the commissioning of the Daya Bay nuclear power plant?
SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE: Sir, I am not aware of the exact commissioning date of the Daya Bay plant, but the service at Queen Mary Hospital will be introduced by mid-1990.
MR. HO SAI-CHU: Sir, could I ask how long it will take, when funds are available, to introduce this service in Prince of Wales Hospital?