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The Legislative Council has approved $1.4 billion to help fight SARS.
With the new provisions, the total funds approved by the council since March for fighting SARS amounts to over $1.8 billion.
Some $409.6 million will be used for alteration and addition works to nine public hospitals to provide isolation rooms to segregate suspected SARS patients who may have contracted infectious diseases and improve SARS ward facilities.
The hospitals will provide about 1,280 beds in different sized isolation rooms for confirmed and suspected SARS patients before the end of the year.
Some $500 million has been approved for financing research projects.
Another $500 million will top up the $200 million approved on March 31 to cover hospital outlay in the treatment of SARS patients, additional human resources, and expenditure incurred by various Government departments in strengthening infection control and public health education.
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