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MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1988
CONTRACT AWARDED FOR QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL EXTENSION
A $128.5 MILLION CONTRACT WAS AWARDED BY THE ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT TODAY (MONDAY) FOR A MAJOR EXTENSION WORKS PROGRAMME TO THE QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL.
SCHEDULED TO START THIS MONTH, THE PROGRAMME WILL INVOLVE CONSTRUCTION OF A 14-STOREY PATHOLOGY BLOCK, ALTERATIONS TO THE HOSPITAL'S EXISTING BLOCK "B" FROM LOWER GROUND TO THIRD FLOOR, CONSTRUCTION OF SEVEN ADDITIONAL STORBYS ABOVE BLOCK "B" AND CONSTRUCTION OF A FOUR-STOREY BUILDING SERVICES UNIT.
ON COMPLETION IN NOVEMBER 1990, THE PROGRAMME WILL PROVIDE A CLINICAL PATHOLOGY UNIT, TWO MEDICAL WARDS, TWO NEONATAL, WARDS, ONE SECOND CLASS FEMALE WARD, ONE SPECIAL CARE PAEDIATRIC WARD. A CUSTODIAL WARD, AN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT, A CORONARY CARE UNIT/CARDIAC LABORATORY, AN ELECTRODIAGNOSTIC UNIT, A RENAL UNIT AND A SCHOOL OF NURSING FOR POST BASIC STUDIES.
CS OPENS HOME FOR MOTHER'S CHOICE MOVEMENT
MOTHER'S CHOICE 19 A MOVEMENT FOUNDED TO HELP UNMARRIED WOMEN. WHO HAVE BECOME PREGNANT, BY PROVIDING A SAFE AND PRACTICAL ALTERNATIVE TO ABORTION, THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID FORD, SAID THIS (MONDAY) AFTERNOON.
OFFICIATING AT THE OPENING OF THE HOME FOR MOTHER'S CHOICE IN KENNEDY ROAD, SIR DAVID SAID BECAUSE OF THE CULTURAL AND SOCIAL STIGMA THAT IT CARRIED, PREGNANCY FOR UNWED MOTHERS REMAINED ONE OF THE PROBLEMS WHICH MANY PEOPLE WOULD NOT WISH то TALK ABOUT, MUCH LESS TO SEEK PROPER GUIDANCE AND ASSISTANCE.
"YOUNG UNMARRIED MOTHERS OFTEN RESORT TO ILLEGAL ABORTION ΤΟ RESOLVE THE PROBLEM, OFTEN TO THE DAMAGE OF THEIR OWN HEALTH AT A LATE STAGE OF PREGNANCY," HE SAID.
"THERE IS NO WAY WE CAN FIND OUT HOW MANY SUCH CASES OF ABORTION TAKE PLACE IN AND OUTSIDE HONG KONG, BUT WHATEVER THE NUMBER, THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT WE NEED THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR'S ASSISTANCE TO DEAL WITH THIS PROBLEM.
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