SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1977
WORK ON MACLEHOSE DENTAL CENTRE TO BEGIN NEXT MONTH ******
THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT HAS CALLED TENDERS FOR AN EIGHT- STOREY COMPLEX IN MORRISON HILL, WAN CHAI, WHICH WILL BECOME THE NERVE CENTRE OF THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT'S DENTAL SERVICE.
THE MACLEHOSE DENTAL CENTRE, AS IT IS TO BE CALLED, WILL BE SITUATED BETWEEN QUEEN'S ROAD EAST AND OF KWAN ROAD ADJACENT TO THE TANG CHI NGONG SPECIALIST CLINIC.
THE P.W.D.'S CHIEF ARCHITECT MR. EDWIN WONG, SAID TODAY: +THE BUILDING WILL ACCOMMODATE A TRAINING SCHOOL FOR DENTAL NURSES, A SCHOOL CHILDREN'S DENTAL CLINIC, DENTAL SURGERIES AS WELL AS FACILITIES TO REPROVISION THE EXISTING DENTAL HEADQUARTERS IN THE WAN CHAI DENTAL CLINIC AT KENNEDY ROAD.+
+CONSTRUCTION IS EXPECTED TO START IN JUNE AND BE COMPLETED TWELVE MONTHS LATER.+
+ THE SUBSTRUCTURE CONTRACT FOR THE PROJECT IS NOW ALMOST COMPLETE, AND THE TENDERS WE ARE NOW INVITING ARE FOR THE SUPERSTRUCTURE,+ MR. WONG SAID.
WHEN THE GOVERNOR, SIR MURRAY MACLEHOSE, LAID THE FOUNDATION STONE FOR THE BUILDING EARLIER THIS YEAR, HE SAID IT HAD A KEY ROLE TO PLAY IN HONG KONG'S DENTAL CONSERVATION SERVICE WHICH IS JUST GETTING INTO ITS STRIDE.
THIS CENTRE, SIR MURRAY SAID WILL TRAIN THE DENTAL NURSES AND DENTAL HYGIENISTS WHO WILL STAFF THE DENTAL CONSERVATION SCHEME FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN.
SIR MURRAY ALSO PRAISED THE PHILANTHROPHY OF SIR SHIU-KIN TANG WHO HAD GENEROUSLY CONTRIBUTED TO THE COST OF THE CENTRE.
IN RECOGNITION OF SIR SHIU-KIN TANG'S DONATIONS THE DENTAL NURSE TRAINING SCHOOL AND THE SCHOOL CHILDREN'S DENTAL CLINIC WILL BE NAMED AFTER HIM.
MEANWHILE, THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT HAS ALSO CALLED TENDERS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF ADDITIONAL STAFF QUARTERS AT QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL.
THE P.W.D. CHIEF ARCHITECT, MR. P. CHUNG, SAID THE NEW BLOCK WOULD BE BUILT IN THE HOSPITAL COMPOUND, IN THE SOUTH EAST CORNER OF THE SISTERS' QUARTERS BLOCK.
*THE NEW 20-STOREY BUILDING WHICH WILL BE OVER A FOUR-FLOOR CAR PARKING PODIUM, WILL PROVIDE A TOTAL OF EIGHTY QUARTERS FOR MARRIED STAFF.+
MR. CHUNG SAID WORK ON THIS PROJECT WOULD START IN MID-JULY AND WOULD TAKE 20 MONTHS TO COMPLETE.
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