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In this way the hospital bed capacity could be increased from the present number of 226 to over 300. In addition certain other alterations would be necessary such as the provision of two extra operating theatres, a clinical laboratory, increased facilities for X-ray work,etc.
The cost of all these improvements, for which tentative plans have been drawn up, and are available for inspection, would be as follows:-
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Additional storey in Main Hospital. Other alterations in Main Quarters for 29 Male Servants. Quarters for 66 Female Servants. New Nurses' Quarters.
Hospital.
$630,000.00 29,800.00
35,000.00
90,000.00
445,000.00
Total
$1229,800.00
STAFF.
It is at once obvious that the staff required for such a Hospital would be very considerably greater than that at present available. One of the chief advantages which would accrue to the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital is that the services of the senior clinical members of the University Staff would become available without any cost. In order that the scheme might work smoothly it would be necessary that staff members at present appointed by the Tung Wah Hospitals Medical Committee should become integrated with the University Clinical Staff. To this end the most important appointee would be the Medical Superintendent of the Hospital, who would be in charge of the general administrative work (and who might retain a part-time clinical interest), and upon whom the responsibility for a satisfactory liaison between the University and the Hospital would very largely rest. Other officers who would have to be either resident at the Hospital, or in close touch with it, would be House Officers (say 6 or 8) and 4 senior men (of rank corresponding to 1st Assistants to the University Clinical Units), say one each in Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics, and one in charge of the Receiving Room. It might be reasonable to request the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital to meet the expense of these appointments as they are already doing in the case of 4 Medical Officers, on the understanding that the services of all the senior full-time members of the University Clinical Units would be available to the Hospital without cost.
SPECIAL COMMITTEE FOR THE TUNG WAH EASTERN HOSPITAL.
So many special matters of administration would come up for consideration that it would probably be necessary to set up a separate Committee to deal with them. To this end it might be wise if the Tung Wah Authorities sanctioned the setting up of a Special Tung Wah Eastern Hospital Committee, the composition of which should be mutually agreed upon by the University and the Tung Wah Authorities in consultation with the Government.
An additional reason for a very early decision lies in the fact that we must make an appeal to the Secretary of State for a grant to enable us to carry out the structural alterations outlined on page 3 of this letter. The University has no funds from which these charges can be met. A sum of money was earmarked in the Colonial Welfare and Development Fund for the promotion of higher education in the Colonies. This money is controlled by the Secretary of State who takes the advice of a Colonial Universities Grants Committee which sits in London. That Committee has made grants in the West Indies and in Africa
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