Tung Announces Fund to Commemorate Dr Tse Yuen-man

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Tung Announces Fund to Commemorate Dr Tse Yuen-man

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Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Tung Chee Hwa said Thursday the government will seek approval from the Legislative Council's Finance Committee for 200 million HK dollars (25.6 million US dollars) to establish a fund named "Dr Tse Yuen-man Training Fund".

Tung said 70 million HK dollars (9 million dollars) from the fund will be used to assist health care workers infected with the disease and the remaining 130 million HK dollars (16.7 million dollars) will be used for strengthening their studies and training.

He hoped that the fund would help nurture more outstanding and kindhearted doctors like Dr Tse who had wholeheartedly served the community.

Dr Tse Yuen-man, 35, is the first public hospital doctor in Hong Kong who was killed by SARS when treating SARS patients.

She died on May 13 and was honored Thursday with a hero's funeral attended by Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa, senior officials and hundreds of people.

Tse had volunteered to work in a SARS ward and had been infected as she and her colleagues tried to resuscitate a patient in a hospital.

SARS has infected 1,719 people in Hong Kong and killed 255, including a health care assistant who recently became the third front-line hospital worker to die from SARS.

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