Kwong Wah Hospital:
Redevelopment of Kwong Wah Hospital will strengthen its Chinese and Western medicines shared care services.
Queen Mary Hospital:
The redeveloped Queen Mary Hospital will provide upgraded accident and emergency services and cardiology services.
Medical services expenditure to rise
February 01, 2012
Recurrent expenditure for medical services for the coming year will rise 8% to nearly $45 billion, with total expenditure in 2012-13 exceeding $59 billion.
Delivering his 2012-13 Budget today, Financial Secretary John Tsang said the amount of recurrent funding allocated to the Hospital Authority will increase by nearly 40% to $40 billion in 2012-13.
The authority will extend the coverage of its community-based case management programme for patients with severe mental illness to four more districts.
For medical manpower, the Government will allocate $200 million to increase the number of first-year first-degree places in medicine by 100, nursing by 40 and allied health professions by 146.
Queen Mary and Kwong Wah Hospitals will be redeveloped in the coming year to provide better health services.
The Government will also inject $10 billion into the Samaritan Fund to provide full or partial subsidies to patients for self-financed drugs and medical items.
