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Supplementary to Question No.

in LegCo Meeting on 8.4.87

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Mr.

LIU (in Cantonese) : Sir, will the Government inform this

Council when the Nethersole Hospital has been re-located

whether the maternity services provided by the hospital will be

correspondingly recompensed in the area?

Secretary for Health and Welfare: Sir, the Tsan Yuk Maternity

Hospital is very close to the Nethersole and this provides a

very considerable number

a total of 246 maternity beds.

The Queen Mary Hospital also has 64 obstetric beds, and between

the two hospitals, they will very adequately cater for the

requirement for maternity beds in the western part of Hong Kong

Island.

Mr. Andrew WONG (in Cantonese): Will the Secretary take a look

at paragraph 2 of the answer which says, in 1991 there is a

demand for 3,300 hospital beds in the New Territories and only

1,840 will be made available? When will the Taipo Nethersole

Hospital be completed and how many extra beds will be provided

then?