CO129-618-4 University of Hong Kong- conversion of Tung Wah Eastern Hospital into a teaching hospital 17-2-1949 - 27-9-1949 — Page 35

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will therefore cost about $885,000 (£54,700).

4. possible

(a)

(b)

:

If this sum were made available it would be

by the building of new servants' quarters to give more than double the existing space in the ground floor of the hospital for a well organised out- patients' department, to treat 250 instead of the present total of 100 patients daily;

by the addition of a storey to provide living quarters for doctors and students, lecture rooms, clinical and pathological laboratory, and to free for use as wards the rooms originally intended for wards now used as living quarters by doctors and nurses;

to develop the existing operating theatre and add perhaps two subsidiary theatres;

(c)

(a)

to develop an adequate x-ray department.

These matters are detailed on pages 2 and 3 of Annexure 1.

5.

It has been a long and difficult process to negotiate an agreement with the Directors of the Tung Wah Corporation, which functions under a special Ordinance of the local legislature. The Directors of the Corporation, who are elected annually, have suspected that the University's approach was a veiled attempt of the Government to get possession of this hospital which can be maintained only on condition that the public revenues bear practically the whole cost of maintenance. However, it is now agreed that the Directors shall invite the University to use the hospital for clinical teaching for a period of 20 years, and that the administration of the hospital should be vested in a committee constituted as follows :-

The Director of Medical Services,

Three representatives of the University, Two permanent members of the Advisory Board

of the Tung Wah Hospital,

One member of the Tung Wah Advisory Board

of the current year,

Three members of the Board of Directors of

the Tung Wah Hospitals,

One Medical Superintendent of the Tung Wah

Eastern Hospital.

(The Advisory Board is a body appointed under the Tung Wah Hospital Ordinance. There are fifteen members, eleven of whom are appointed at his free choice by the Governor for an undefined time, the other four for one year by the Directors of the Tung Wah Corporation. The Directors are elected by the subscribers to the Charity and hold office for one year. The Chairman of the Advisory Board normally is the Secretary for Chinese Affairs of the Colony. The University has confidence that the members of the Advisory Board and the Directors would co-operate to make the teaching organisation successful.)

6.

The agreement on control follows closely an existing arrangement made when in response to the Government's offer