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Friday, September 8, 1972
STAFF QUARTERS FOR NEW LAI CHI KOK GENERAL AND MENTAL HOSPITALS
Construction of the New Lai Chi Kok General Hospital is well under-way,
and today tenders are being called for the erection of staff quarters.
The general hospital, as distinct from the Second Mental Hospital
to be set up in the same area of the Lai Chi Kok promontery, is expected to
be opened in 1974.
It will function as an acute general hospital, with a 24-hour casualty
and emergency service. For this reason, there must be an adequate number of
resident medical, nursing and other staff whose work will require their attendance
at the hospital on short notice at any hour.
The quarters are expected to be completed at the same time as the
general hospital. They are to be set up in three blocks and will accommodate
doctors, matrons, nurses, nursing auxiliaries, stewards, hospital secretaries,
foremen and hospital orderlies.
A special feature of one of the blocks will be a 12,000 square foot
training school for paychiatric nurses, and the idea is to have such staff trained in time for the opening of the Second Mental Hospital. This hospital
with 1,300 beds forms part of the total development scheme proposed for the
upper part of the Lai Chi Kok promontery site,
Construction of the approach road providing access to this portion of
the site has already been completed.
Site formation for the staff quarters of the mental hospital will be
constructed later, and will form a separate tender.
The Second Mental Hospital is expected to be ready in 1976.
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