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香港政府
GIS 新聞處
DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
Sunday, April 11, 1976
BIG IMPROVEMENT IN Q.E.H. CASUALTY SERVICE
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Conditions at the extremely busy casualty department of queen
Elizabeth Hospital will be greatly improve following the recent completion
of an expansion project.
Because of the increasing number of casualty attendances and to
cope with the future needs envisaged in the Medical White Paper, approval
was given last year to put up additional treatment cubicles and to enlarge
the waiting area in the casualty department.
Work on the project began in June last year and was completed
last month at a total cost of about $500,000. The waiting area at the
casualty department, which formerly could only accommodate some 40 to 50
waiting patients at any one tine, has been enlarged to accommodate twice
that number. The number of treatment cubicles has also been increased from
8 to 12.
A spokesman for the Medical and Health Department said today the
expansion project was a big improvement in the emergency service thich had
recently been reinforced by the day-time casualty service of the Princess
Margaret Hospital.
He pointed out that the number of casualty attendance at Queen
Elizabeth Hospital rose dramatically from 112,500 in 1963 to 242,178 in
1975.
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