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Enclosure No.1.
HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Statements under Sections 14 & 15.
The Sincere Life Assurance Company, Limited.
QUESTIONS.
HON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK asked:-
Has the Government any statement to make as to the financial position of the Tung Wah and allied Hospitals?
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY replied:-
The question of increased financial assistance to the Tung Wah and associated Hospitals has been under consideration for a considerable time. It came to a head early in 1938 when the Tung Wah Committee approached the Government with a request for a grant to cover the deficit shown on the working for the year 1937 equal to approximately $150,000. As the result of discussions which followed, certain important steps have been agreed for the improvement of the financial control of the hospitals. In particular it has been agreed that:-
(a) The committee shall prepare and adhere to a proper annual budget and shall submit annual accounts audited by an auditor approved by the Government.
(b) The annual budget shall be approved by the Permanent Advisory Committee already established.
(c) The medical and charitable work of the hospitals shall be separated. It is intended that separate budgets shall be prepared for each of these two functions and that the premises used for medical and hospital purposes shall, as far as possible, be separated from those used for the other great charitable works for which the Tung Wah Hospital organization has for long been well-known, namely the relief of distress, however caused, the care of destitute and aged persons and the burial of the dead.
(d) All matters relating to the medical administration |
of the Hospitals will in future be under the control of a Medical Committee appointed by His Excellency the Governor. This committee has already been set up and its membership was announced in the Government Gazette of 16th December, 1938. It includes the Honourable Director of Medical Services or his deputy (Chairman), two members of the
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