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Wednesday, July 12, 1972

LAI CHI KOK HOSPITAL "TOPPED OUT*

A topping-out ceremony on Friday (July 14) will mark a further step

towards the completion of the multi-million dollar Lai Chi Kok Hospital in

Kowloon.

The Director of Building Development, Public Works Department,

Mr. C.R.J. Donnithorne, will officiate at the ceremony to be held on the roof

of the main hospital block at 3.30 p.m. Among the guests will be the Director

of Medical and Health Services, Dr. G.H. Choa.

The new Lai Chi Kok hospital consists of three inter-connected blocks.

One of the blocks will house a modern casualty department providing a 24-hour

emergency and accident service.

The second will be the main hospital building for both general and

special patients, together with a suite of six operating theatres

ancillary services.

The third block will accommodate an infectious diseases unit and a

geriatric unit which will be the first of its kind in Hong Kong.

When it is opened in 1974, it will provide 1,320 beds and will serve

the densely populated areas of north-west Kowloon, Tsuen Wan and Kwai Chung.

Note to Editors:

You are invited to send a reporter and/or

photographer to cover the event.

Official transport will be provided. Press

representatives wishing to make use of the facility are requested to assemble at the Kowloon Transport Sub-pool, behind the Tsim Sha Tsui Post Office, not

later than 2.30 p.m. on Friday.

An officer from the Public Works Department

will be present to assist the press.

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