<p align="justify" style="margin-top:0.0000pt;margin-right:0.0000pt;margin-bottom:0.0000pt;margin-left:0.0000pt;text-indent:0.0000pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt ;layout-grid-mode:char;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;text-justify:inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;">面對公營醫療體系瀕臨爆煲,據悉政府決定大刀闊斧,在明日公佈的財政預算案中,給予醫管局超過600億元的經常撥款,讓當局增置數百張病床、增聘醫護、擴大醫社合作等項目的規模。今次撥款較上個財年增加最少60億元或11%,增幅近年最高。另政府有意預留以億元計款項,支持2025年以後的公立醫院發展。立法會議員對政府再次用銀彈解救水深火熱的醫管局表示歡迎,期望款項能用得其所。</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin-top:0.0000pt;margin-right:0.0000pt;margin-bottom:0.0000pt;margin-left:0.0000pt;text-indent:0.0000pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt ;layout-grid-mode:char;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;text-justify:inter-ideograph;"> </p><p align="justify" style="margin-top:0.0000pt;margin-right:0.0000pt;margin-bottom:0.0000pt;margin-left:0.0000pt;text-indent:0.0000pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt ;layout-grid-mode:char;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;text-justify:inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;"><img src="/EditBackyard/EditorData/Photo/27la6p01.jpg55555.jpg" width="450" height="312" alt="" /><br /></span><em><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;">本港公營醫療體系資源不足,一直為人詬病。</span></em><em><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></em><em><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></em><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;">醫管局2016/17年度因應政府節約資源計劃,須削約2.5億元開支,令經常撥款最後減1,200萬元;至上年度政府給予544億元經常撥款,增加20億元。</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin-top:0.0000pt;margin-right:0.0000pt;margin-bottom:0.0000pt;margin-left:0.0000pt;text-indent:0.0000pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt ;layout-grid-mode:char;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;text-justify:inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;">去年行政長官林鄭月娥上場後,表明會盡量給予資源醫管局改善醫療服務。據悉,醫管局今年向政府提交的預算開支超過600億元,涵蓋現有職員薪酬調整、增聘人手、增加數百張病床、推行包括精神科病人支援等項目。</span></p><h2><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt;">料加碼資助罕見病藥費</span></strong></h2><p align="justify" style="margin-top:0.0000pt;margin-right:0.0000pt;margin-bottom:0.0000pt;margin-left:0.0000pt;text-indent:0.0000pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt ;layout-grid-mode:char;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;text-justify:inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;">此外,去年10月的施政報告中,政府提出在給予醫管局撥款時,也把人口增長率、人口結構變化的預測納入指標,並以3年為一周期逐步遞增撥款額;據悉,綜合上述因素後,政府2018/19財年會撥600億元以上的經常撥款予醫管局,較上個財年544億元增加最少60億元。</span><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><div> </div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;">除了每年經常撥款,2016年政府亦提出2,000億元的10年公立醫院發展計劃,規劃、重建或擴建12間醫院,包括有2,400張病床、正在興建的啟德醫院。</span></div><p align="justify" style="margin-top:0.0000pt;margin-right:0.0000pt;margin-bottom:0.0000pt;margin-left:0.0000pt;text-indent:0.0000pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt ;layout-grid-mode:char;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;text-justify:inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;">據了解,政府一直與醫管局商討2025年以後的醫院改善工程綱領,例如重建或擴建瑪嘉烈、屯門兩座「龍頭」醫院,料當局會撥出一筆以億元計的款項,成立類似工程儲備基金的資金池,加快醫院重建。</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin-top:0.0000pt;margin-right:0.0000pt;margin-bottom:0.0000pt;margin-left:0.0000pt;text-indent:0.0000pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt ;layout-grid-mode:char;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;text-justify:inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;">至於罕見病藥物資助,據悉政府與醫管局已完成施政報告提及的檢討程序,政府會加碼注資到醫管局的藥物安全網,資助特定罕見病患者的藥物費用。</span></p><p align="justify" style="margin-top:0.0000pt;margin-right:0.0000pt;margin-bottom:0.0000pt;margin-left:0.0000pt;text-indent:0.0000pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt ;layout-grid-mode:char;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric;text-justify:inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;">立法會議員郭家麒形容,政府是次撥款有如「放鬆咗自己個金剛箍」,期望政府日後仍然願意繼續大開水喉,緩解水深火熱的醫管局,協助應對人口老化挑戰,「65歲以上人士嘅醫療開支,係其他人嘅8倍,希望醫管局真係將錢用得其所」。</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;">郭家麒又認為,醫管局需認真思考如何招募新血加入工作壓力沉重的公立醫院。 </span></p>