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Wednesday, October 10, 1973

MORE MEDICAL FACILITIES FOR TSZ WAN SHAN

A new standard urban clinic and maternity home will soon operate

in Tsz Wan Shan to serve residents in the area.

The project

the first of its kind in Tsz Wan Shan

forms

part of the 10-year medical development programme being undertaken by

the Medical and Health Department.

The three-storey clinic is being built on a 26,000-square-foot

site west of Sheung Fung Street, next to the Housing Department Staff Quarters.

Facilities in the clinic will comprise a general out-patient

department, a child health centre and a 24-bed maternity home.

Also provided in the building will be a dispensary, a demonstration

room, a laboratory, a minor operation room, consultation rooms and staff

quarters, anong others.

The out-pationt department will be on the ground floor while the

second and top floors will provide respective accommodation for the child

health centre and maternity home.

Commenting on the project, a spokesman for the Medical and Health

Department said that as there was no maternity clinic in the Tsz Wan Shan

Estate, the opening of the clinic vas expected to go a long way towards

meeting the needs of expectant mothers and the vast population in the area

and its proximity.

Construction of the building, which started in July last, is nearing

completion. It is expected to be fully operational by the end of this year,

The estimated cost of the project is $1.7 million.

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