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build a new hospital, such as the planned new hospital for
Eastern District which is estimated to incur a capital cost of
millia over $1,800 000 000 fone thousand eight hundred million
recurrent dollars) with an annual recurring cost of over $350 million. I have made a conservative estimate that by raising the
apor cent occupancy rate of all hospitals to the optimum of 85% we would have instantly created 1,082 hospital beds in
1987.
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I am confident that Authority, OI even the provisional one. Althoughr/Sir S.Y.
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of wisdom and vigour, will certainly also accord high, if not top priority, to this matter as well.
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is true that maximising the utilisation rate of all ·
public hospitals would not offset the need to build some new ones, particularly in the satellite towns, and the heavily populated urban areas such as the Kowloon peninsula and Kwun Tong area. We are all aware of the acute needs of Queen
Elizabeth Hospital, its camp-beds and its overflow of
patients next door to the British Military Hospital.
Bleek extension to be completed in 1991, is now estimated already to be insufficient to meet the needs of the area, as
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-BMH had for many years, kindly extended its assistance to the
Hong Kong Government, but of course, not without a hefty compensation I sympathize with the difficulties faced by BMH, because the hospital is old and not
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