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Premier backs plan to save sanitarium and MRT line depot

Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) threw his support yesterday behind a plan to preserve 90 percent of Losheng (Happy Family) Sanitarium, and promised the facility for leprosy sufferers would not be torn down on Monday.

The sanitarium, built in 1930, was originally scheduled to be torn down on Monday to make way for construction of a Mass Rapid Transit maintenance depot.

After meeting with representatives from the sanitarium, academia and civil groups, the premier appealed to them to give the Cabinet's public construction committee one or two months to continue the negotiation with the Taipei County Government.

Although promising to support the plan, Su said the goal of preserving the sanitarium must not affect the opening of the Hsin-Chuang MRT line.

Cabinet Spokesperson Chen Mei-ling (陳美伶) said that Su had apologized for the recent furor over the project and the government's poor handling of the case.
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