RECOMMENDATIONS, Two New Hospitals Set Down As Urgent Matters.
The Health Committee has been giving consideration to the recom-Imendations of the Hospital and Nursing Services Commission, whose report was published on August 27, 1982, and upon its advice the Coun-has approved, subject. to reference to the Finance Committee, the inclusion in the 1938 Budget of the following appropriations: Western Fever Hospital Tls. 150,000; Mental Hospital Tis, 50,000; Laundry Tls. 10,600.
'The Commission, in dealing with Isolation Hospital' accommodation, recommended that a hospital be Jerected on the "Island Site" (Great Western, Tifeng and Bubbling Well Roads) and that it be known as the Western Fever Hospital, admitting patients of any nationality prepared to conform to hospital regulations. Further, the Commission recom: mended' that this hospital should Jcontain approximately 160 beds, some apportioned to minor as well major infectious diseases; and that in addition to paying beds, it should have certain free beds" in accordance with the necessities of the population served. presenting a portion of the cost, be jeluded in the 1983 Budget and larked as urgent. The Committee also regarded the' erection of a modern laundry in the compound lof the Isolation Hospital as desir-fable in the interests of efficiency and economy. Subject to further consideration as to the type of equipment to be installed in the laundry, it was recommended that appropriation of Tis, 10,000, representing a portion of the cost, included in the 1982 Budget and marked as urgent,
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