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"Foz personal reasons, apart from official ones, I am delighted to
be the one who declares open this Hospital, because I have an association
with it back to 1952, when I was Colonial Secretary. It is heart-warming to
see the materialisation of schemes and plans, of blue-prints and the ideas
born of discussions in smoke-filled rooms; there is a nostalgia in the
recollection of the periods of anxiety and relief, of the moments of despair
and hope, and of the consciousness throughout of the undercurrent of urgency
which was the community's need.
"Now the Queen Elizabeth Hospital stands four square in the gentre
of Kowloon. It has cost $70,300,000. It is the largest of its kind in the
Commonwealth with 1,338 beds. It is completely up-to-date, with a full
range of the most modern means of treatment.
"I do not propose to go into this in detail; there is a brochure
for this purpose: but I do draw attention to the very large Casualty
Department for emergency cases, the Specialist Clinic (generously donated
by the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club) to deal with those cases referred for
consultant's opinion, the Radiological Institute, for which the Jockey Club
has donated $6 million to cover the cost of equipment and to contribute
towards the cost of the Institute."
Newest Equipment
"This institute is a self-contained unit within the hospital
structure, and it will contain the newest equipment available for the
treatment of cancer and the most recent diagnostic facilities.
"In this connexion I might add that I have recently accepted an
invitation from Dr. H.C. Ho and his colleagues to become Patron of the
recently-formed Anti-Cancer Society in Hong Kong, and we should find
encouragement in this promise of development in the work undertaken to
fight cancer.
"During the hospital's construction we have been fortunate in
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