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Friday, November 23, 1973

NEW SPECIALIST CLINIC FOR WANCHAT

A modern eight-storey specialist clinic, the Tang Chi Ngong

Specialist Clinic, is to be built in January next year on a site in

Wanchai next to the Tang Shiu Kin Hospital.

When completed in the middle of 1975, it will replace the

specialist out-patient facilities now available in the Violet Peel

Polyclinic, which is expected to be closed down in 1976 for redevelopment

in connection with plans now under consideration by the Children's

Playground Association for the area of the Southern Playground.

The Tang Chi Ngong Specialist Clinic will be an out-patient

clinic with the largest number of consulting rooms among the new government

clinics proposed over the next few years.

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There will be 21 consulting rooms compared with the nine consulting

rooms in the present Violet Peel Polyclinic. Facilities will include an

operating theatre for minor surgery.

The building is to be provided with a car park. Each floor is

being designed to accommodate a particular type of specialist service such

as ear, nose and throat on one floor, dermatology on another, maternal

and child health service on another, and so on,

Half of the cost of construction is being met by Sir Shiu-kin Tang,

after whose father, the late Tang Chi Ngong, the clinic is being named,

The government will meet the remainder of the expenses, and recurrent costs.

The clinic could eventually form part of the regionalisation

of medical and health services proposed by the Medical Development Advisory

Committee in its recently-published report.

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