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Monday, October 22, 1973

GOVERNOR TO OPEN YAN CHAI HOSPITAL

First Of Its Kind To Be Set Up By Industrialists

The Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose, will open the new Yan Chai

Hospital in Tsuen Wan on Wednesday (October 24).

This acute hospital is the first of its kind to be built in an

expanding industrial area by the district's own community leaders, and is

designed to operate in cloge liaison with the facilities of the Medical

and Health Department.

It is already receiving patients.

There are 100 beds, an out-

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patient clinic, an X-ray examination room and an operation theatre.

250 beds are likely to be added at a later stage.

The hospital is providing such services as general medicine, general

surgery, obstetrics and paediatrics to residents of Tsuen Wan, Kwai Chung

and nearby districts.

Specialist teams from the Medical and Health Department are expected

to be sent to the hospital for specialist services in the future when the

need for these facilities has been assessed.

Charges in the hospital are in line with government fees

$2 a

day for in-patients in the general wards, a charge that includes medicine,

laboratory examination and operation. Out-patients pay $1 a visit, which

includes medicine.

by the government.

The operating cost of the hospital is mainly subvented

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