THE Government will continue to subsidise World War II victims' use of the British Military Hospital (BMH) until its closure in 1997.
Legislators are to be asked to approve an $800,000 provision for the hospital, which also serves young soldiers and their families.
About 250 elderly people have enrolled in the special medical treatment scheme entitling them to use BMH's services at government expense.
Legislators criticised the scheme as expensive when they were first asked to approve revised payment rates last March, and the Government was forced to withdraw the Finance Committee paper.
Councillors said the BMH's in-patient and out-patient services charged higher rates than public hospitals, and asked whether war victims could instead be treated at public hospitals and government clinics.
BMH's daily fees for in-patients have increased by 41 per cent from GBP275 ($3,152) in 1991 to GBP388 while attendance fees for out-patients have risen by 21 per cent from GBP160 last year to GBP193.
