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Question No 5

REPLY BY THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH & WELFARE

TO A QUESTION BY THE HON LIU LIT-FOR IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ON WEDNESDAY, 8 APRIL 1987

Question :

In view of the Government's plan to set aside a piece of land in Tai Po for relocating the Nethersole Hospital, will Government inform this Council what impact will this plan have on the overall provision of medical services in the Western District on Hong Kong Island and what measures will be taken to prevent a deterioration in the standard of medical facilities in the district?

Sir,

The provision of hospital beds is planned on a

regional rather than a district basis. The proposal

recently endorsed by the Medical Development Advisory

Committee to remove the Nethersole Hospital from Hong Kong

Island to Tai Po was made against the background of the

requirement for hospital beds on Hong Kong Island and in

the Eastern New Territories.

2.

With the completion of the expansion projects

at the Queen Mary Hospital and the Ruttonjee Sanatorium,

and the new Eastern District Hospital, Hong Kong Island