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to be made after the completion of a detailed

survey;

(a) relieving the overcrowding at the Queen Elizabeth

Hospital casualty department by building an extension;

(e) providing additional facilities at Queen Elizabeth

Hospital by means of an extension of "B" Block for

open heart surgery and a better clinical pathology

service, and 100 additional beds; and

(f) adding a Burns Unit to Queen Mary Hospital.

The position of the Tung Wah

Group of

Hospitals.

6.9

The scheme described in this chapter cannot be fully

carried out without the participation of the general beds in the

hospitals of the Tung Wah Group. The scheme as described hitherto

envisages that the Kwong Wah Hospital (with improvements) would

become a regional hospital serving West Kowloon and the Tung Wah

and Tung Wah Eastern would act as district hospitals on Hong Kong

Island.

6.10

An integrated scheme of this sort for third class

patients would undoubtedly achieve a more even use of beds in

different hospitals, and be more fair to patients who frequently

have no choice as to which hospital they go to, if all parti-

cipating hospitals charged uniform fees. At present there is

considerable disparity even though all are funded to a more or

less equal extent by the taxpayer. The all-inclusive charge in

Government hospitals is $2 a day for third-class beds with a

system of remission in case of need.

Amongst assisted hospitals

the Tung Wah Group traditionally charges no fees to third-class

patients, but others for the most part charge fees in excess

/of those...

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