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the whole cost of staffing and maintenance of their hospitals. The hospital for which we are negotiating was never completed. The Trust's. available funds were exhausted before it was able to build quarters for resident doctors, nurses and servants who at present are housed in what should be wards or an Out- patients Department so that its effective accommodation is reduced to about two hundred beds. With increased numbers of students and pressure from the Medical Department of Govern- ment for our relinquishing of beds in the Queen Mary Hospital we shall need the whole total of three hundred beds for which the hospital was planned, as well as the two hundred that we must maintain our clai:: to in the Queen Mary Hospital. convert this Tung Wah East Hospital into the kind of teaching hospital we require the following works must be undertaken:-
(a) The building of nurses' quarters.
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The reconstruction of the present ground floor now used for servants' quarters into an Out-patients Department capable of dealing with not less than three hundred cases a day and as the hospital is on the edge of a very densely peopled industrial area.
The provision of at least one additional operating theatre (there is only one at present), not a difficult matter.
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The building of a laboratory for routine chemical and pathological examinations.
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The building of a lecture theatre and two class rooms.
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The re-equipping of an X-ray Department.
(No pro- vision need be made for radio-therapy for which the Queen Mary Hospital is specially well equipped).
The hospital, a three storied building, was planned to take a fourth floor which will give us all the accommodation proposed above except servants' quarters for which there is ample space in the hospital grounds.
No detailed estimate of the cost of this work has been made as costs vary continuously with the supply of labour and materials, so that no present estimate is a safe guide for work taken in hand after a lapse of six months. A total of £120,000 has been suggested of which we cannot hope to find more than £30,000 from local sources, leaving us with the need to appeal to the Grants Committee for about £90,000.
Maintenance costs are not a serious difficulty as there is little doubt that the Government will be willing to meet these by a grant sufficient to meet all charges except the salaries of University teachers. hospital, it is proposed, should be in the hands of a committee
The management of the representative of the Government, the University and the Trustees. Legal advice already has been sought to safeguard the interest that the University will acquire by the additional expenditure on the building.
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