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EAST WING

HERBAL O.P.D.

NORTH WING

WEST WING

GENERAL STAFF QUARTERS

NURSES' QUARTERS

GREAT HALL

MEDICAL STAFF QUARTERS

Rear view of model of the new Kwong Wah Hospital which will be completed in 1964.

EXTENSIONS TO KWONG WAH HOSPITAL

Architect: Eric Cumine. Architect in charge: Newman Jones.

TH HE old Kwong Wah Hospital was established in 1911. Early in the 1950's, the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals decided that the exist ing hospital was unable to cope with the increasing demand for hospital accommodation.

In 1956 sketch plans of the pro- posed new hospital, to be erected on the site of the old, were requeste: from Mr. Eric Cumine and submitted to the Board of Directors for con-

sideration. In due course it was decided that the hospital. to com- prise 1,300 beds, with 750 nurses, and 600 other staff, would be con- structed in five phases.

The first stage was commenced in the latter part of 1958. This month the East Wing and Central Stack which will accommodate approxi- mately 450 bed patients, will he handed over to the hospital authori- ties.

Front view of the Kwong Wah Hospital.

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The first half of the nurses quarters. a 12-storey structure, will be handed over at the beginning of 1961.

At the present rate of progress. it is expected that the whole scheme will be completed in 1964.

The volume of the whole of the building work is approximately 101 million cubic feet.

Building works are averaging $1.00 per cubic foot for construc- tion. Equipment costs are addi- tional.

Total cost of the building works for the hospital is $23 million. Equipment is estimated to cost $7 million.

The new Kwong Wah. and the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital. are the largest hospital projects in the East.

Sixty resident doctors will be accommodated. Other doctors work- ing in the hospital will live outside.

The North Wing part of the hospital

the major will house

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