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Friday, November 23, 1973
NEW SPECIALIST CLINIC FOR WANCHAT
A modern eight-storey specialist clinic, the Tang Chi Ngong
Specialist Clinic, is to be built in January next year on a site in
Wanchai next to the Tang Shiu Kin Hospital.
When completed in the middle of 1975, it will replace the
specialist out-patient facilities now available in the Violet Peel
Polyclinic, which is expected to be closed down in 1976 for redevelopment
in connection with plans now under consideration by the Children's
Playground Association for the area of the Southern Playground.
The Tang Chi Ngong Specialist Clinic will be an out-patient
clinic with the largest number of consulting rooms among the new government
clinics proposed over the next few years.
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There will be 21 consulting rooms compared with the nine consulting
rooms in the present Violet Peel Polyclinic. Facilities will include an
operating theatre for minor surgery.
The building is to be provided with a car park. Each floor is
being designed to accommodate a particular type of specialist service such
as ear, nose and throat on one floor, dermatology on another, maternal
and child health service on another, and so on,
Half of the cost of construction is being met by Sir Shiu-kin Tang,
after whose father, the late Tang Chi Ngong, the clinic is being named,
The government will meet the remainder of the expenses, and recurrent costs.
The clinic could eventually form part of the regionalisation
of medical and health services proposed by the Medical Development Advisory
Committee in its recently-published report.
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